Politics & Elections

We live in an age in which punitive justice and a theater of cruelty have become the defining elements of a mainstream cultural apparatus that trades in historical and …

Alexander Hamilton’s strategic proposals for American manufacturing built the greatest industrial powerhouse the world had ever seen -- before they were abandoned.

We have become a country in which democracy is no longer a viable dream; rather, it is a living nightmare haunting those who now control the reins of financial …

The RNC's vote suppression targeted blacks, Hispanics, the poor of all shades and Florida's Jewish voters.

A few Americans are buying our democracy as never before. And they're doing it completely in secret.

The new zombies have an increasing presence in the death chambers of high finance, the highest reaches of government and in the forefront of mainstream media.

“The world is too complex for history to repeat, but there are nevertheless lessons to keep in mind.”

Sovereignty nowadays is, so to speak, underdefined and contentious, porous and poorly defensible, unanchored and free-floating.

The disciplining force of society is at its most effective when its human origins are denied or covered up.

“The present is a period of riots,” writes Alain Bertho.