It’s a genuine grassroots movement, fed by Facebook, that includes students, workers, intellectuals, Islamists and nationalists.
The Egyptian opposition leader debunked hyped intelligence that led the US into war in Iraq. It's no surprise that war cheerleaders are now attacking him again.
The Goldstone Report is a fair-minded and disturbing document—which is precisely why the Israeli strategy since its publication has been to talk about everything except what’s in it.
W.B. Yeats’s poems on Ireland contemplate failures: not of poetry but of public life in all its forms.
Merrill Gilfillan’s The Bark of the Dog and The Warbler Road; Tony Judt’s The Memory Chalet.
Mark David Chapman was carrying a copy of The Catcher in the Rye when he shot John Lennon. The murder was a collision of cultures.
Haitians believe their vote doesn't matter—and they’re right.
Faced with bitter circumstances, we gain a lot in remembering to have fun.
This is what illegal abortion looks like.
Among Republicans, a civil war has broken out over defense spending.
Wall Street is rolling in cash again, but the rest of the city is still stuck in the Great Recession.
Acclaimed scholar and poet Fred Moten, associate professor of English ...