On Rudolph Giuliani and the enduring power of shamelessness.

For migrants who speak Mayan languages, a grassroots group of interpreters is often their only hope for receiving asylum.

As the Senate takes up his impeachment trial, white Christian evangelicals remain firmly in the president’s corner.

After Fukushima, balancing the risk of another disaster against the rising danger of climate change.

How Evangelicals have claimed Trump as one of their own.

How Walter Liew stole titanium white from DuPont on behalf of the Chinese government.

Can his cerebral politics still galvanize voters in an age of extremes?

A dispatch from th Park Slope Food Co-op.

On the fraught relationship between Bolivia’s Evo Morales and the indigenous activists who support him.

His verbal stumbles have voters worried about his mental fitness. Maybe they’d be more understanding if they knew he’s still fighting a stutter.

A year in the lives of Abigail Spanberger and Ayanna Pressley.

On the author of How the Irish Became White.

The Wing is a private members’ space for women that claims to be an ‘accelerator’ for feminist revolution in the US – and now it’s coming to the UK. But how progressive is it really?

“The vegan wars are not really about veganism at all, but about how individual freedom is coming into conflict with a personal and environmental health crisis.”

Inside the campaign of Joe Biden, “the least formidable front-runner ever.”

Until recently, it was possible to believe that there was a middle way, or to be in denial that a decisive moment would come. That’s no longer the case.

A history of the ultimate political weapon, which we’ve never understood how to use.

What is the defining achievement of Barack Obama?

Some risky but practical proposals to harness a superpower that has clearly lost control.

Firsthand accounts of the largest and most ambitious internment drive of a minority group since Nazi Germany, emerging from a region of totalitarian surveillance and control.

Highlights from two hours of leaked audio from recent staff Q&A sessions with Facebook’s CEO.

Another inmate was unable to complete his application, and assented to voluntary departure, in which an immigrant agrees to leave the country at his or her own expense. “You’ll be on your way back to Mexico today,” said the judge.

Power worship blurs political judgement because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. If the Japanese have conquered south Asia, then they will keep south Asia for ever, if the Germans have captured Tobruk, they will infallibly capture Cairo; if the Russians are in Berlin, it will not be long before they are in London: and so on. This habit of mind leads also to the belief that things will happen more quickly, completely, and catastrophically than they ever do in practice. The rise and fall of empires, the disappearance of cultures and religions, are expected to happen with earthquake suddenness, and processes which have barely started are talked about as though they were already at an end.

I was asked about labor protections for adult-film performers. I said: You have to recognize how complicated this is. The things that sex workers do to stay safe are almost always the things civilians want to pass laws to stop. Everything looks different depending on the distance from which you’re looking.

From the proto-bleep to meta-bleep: how the US government protects us from the profane.