By militarizing law enforcement, the US is entering largely uncharted waters, but it’s familiar territory for Chile and Argentina, where established democracies broke down in the 1970s.
Donald Trump has a partisan ally running the FBI. He’s urged retribution against his perceived enemies. Will today’s FBI repeat the vast, unconstitutional persecutions of the J. Edgar Hoover era?
In a long-awaited and much-dreaded announcement on Monday evening, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed today that the government has uncovered two potential explanations for autism. In a formal White House announcement they asserted that the use of Tylenol during pregnancy and folate deficiency in pregnant people […]
This was not how Greg Casar planned to spend his recess. On a Thursday afternoon in mid-August, as the clock ticked down on the first special session of the Texas legislature, the 36-year-old second-term Democratic congressman was sitting at the head of a small wooden conference table, commiserating with the legislator on the other end […]
Mehdi speaks to the Booker Prize-winning novelist on the rise of global fascism, India and Kashmir, Israel and genocide, and also her powerful new memoir, 'Mother Mary Comes to Me.'
Daniel Bessner, Derek Davison
The second of a two-part American Prestige series, exploring US–Latin American relations from the Civil War to today, and why revolutionary currents still shape the region.
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