From 2016 to 2020 Donald J. Trump served as forty-fifth president of the United States; now, he has secured his reelection ...

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Events of the past decade have prompted frenzied discussion of the state of democracy across the globe. In countries across Europe, Latin America, and Asia—as well as, of course, in the United ...

Like many women at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2024 Biennial, I lingered for a long time before “The Last Safe Abortion,” Carmen Winant’s assemblage of more than 2,500 photographs of abortion ...

Clare Emily Clifford is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Birmingham-Southern College.

I first arrived in Frankfurt, in this city of immigrants and exiles, in the fall of 1980, as a foreign student and scholar whose life was forever changed by her encounter with it. In Frankfurt I met ...

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On a state visit to Japan in May 2016, Barack Obama delivered a speech in Hiroshima that won immediate praise from Terumi Tanaka, at the time the secretary general of Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese ...

AI can be used to increase human productivity, create jobs and shared prosperity, and protect and bolster democratic freedoms—but only if we modify our approach.

Mahmood Mamdani is the director of the Institute of Social Research at Makerere University, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia ...

What Big Tech has done to our institutional and infrastructural imagination. It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.