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

The paper has since corrected the embarrassing mistake.

Here’s one thing you might agree with Donald Trump about: The celebrated songwriter was a truly great American.

He alone had the moral authority within the Republican Party to try to stop Donald Trump, especially after January 6. He chose not to. That’s what we must remember today.

The esteemed psychiatrist—and New Republic contributor—urged moral intelligence and alertness to life’s confounding specificity.

Marjane Satrapi’s inimitable art encompassed revolution and war, education and ideology, repression and rebellion.

The great German philosopher both robustly defended the public sphere—and for seven decades never stopped participating in it.

The civil rights icon’s progressive ideas were sidelined during the centrist Clinton years, but they’re ascendant in the Democratic Party today.

The late public intellectual was the very model of a serial conformist.

The Baptist minister from Texas became this New York Jew’s rabbi. How lucky was I?

The radical feminist author of Against Our Will r​eshaped the national conversation about sexual assault. Her contributions were controversial by design.

The pioneering liberal blogger was widely known for celebrating his cats every Friday. Today, in his honor, we do the same.

What her famous mother did as Texas governor, Cecile carried on by standing up a range of progressive and pro-choice organizations.

The filmmaker, who died this week, mixed the menacing with the everyday, the banal with the surreal and sublime.

It’s easy to forget after so much time has passed, but his presidency began with great promise—which still resonates today.

A reporter who was cutting without being snarky, and sincere without being corny, my late friend pulled off a balancing act for 50 years that made him one of the great political journalists of our time.

Walter Shapiro’s journalism was bighearted, clear-eyed, and guided by a deep reverence for the whole operating-level panorama of American democracy.

Shows like “All in the Family” sparked discussion and showed deep faith in the American project.

All of the death and misery he left in his wake was a mere by-product of his single-minded pursuit of elite power.

The Czech author, who died this week at 94, warned against the marginalization of literature and fought for its future.