Two new books illuminate how U.S. foreign policy became vulnerable to unchecked militarism and flagrant corruption.

Steinem faced a problem familiar to many activist writers: how to live according to your political principles without sacrificing your art—or vice versa.

More people are choosing not to have kids. And many who want them are struggling to conceive.

The New Orleans writer’s career has been refreshingly unproductive. She writes the only way she knows how: comic, intuitive, frustrating.

Trump inherited laws designed over two centuries to benefit slaveholders, eugenicists, and segregationists.

Republican lawmakers limited public funding for Parton’s children’s book foundation.

Carlos Barragán’s reporting on young men in Nigeria who defrauded women over the internet illuminates a grim world of poverty and loneliness.

A new book argues that the Marquis de Morès was a forerunner of Hitler and Mussolini, even though they emerged from very different political moments.

The seasoned criminals of “Cool Machine” adapt to the chaos, striving, and gentrification of the 1980s.

The global economy depends on the U.S. dollar, even when the U.S. acts erratically.

John Washington’s How to Close a Camp is a practical guide to opposing ICE and a strong moral argument for action.

As a student, Emily Eakin was fascinated by Derrida, Foucault, and their peers but found them incompatible with the real world. Did she give up too soon?

As a new biography makes clear, A People’s History of the United States arose from a life of deep and admirable commitment, but it has many gaps.

In his new book The God Test, Robert Wright proposes that humanity is facing both a singular opportunity and an epochal threat.

In her history of the Jewish Labor Bund, Molly Crabapple tells the story of workers who opposed prejudice, tyranny, and nationalism.

Emily LaBarge was taken hostage with her family on vacation over Christmas 2009. Her memoir acknowledges the gaps in her memory, and the details she won’t share.

The Story of Capital connects the world of the academy and the world of the street protest.

After becoming a parent, Aviv revisited some of her old stories, finding newly revealing details and asking follow-up questions.

Vice President JD Vance has barely been in the Capitol.

Franklin Foer’s bestselling 2004 book helped sell soccer to Americans thanks in part to a defense of globalization.