Rodrigo Nunes’s new book explores what Brazil’s far right can teach us about the fundamental motivations of the far right ...

Newspapers, illustrated journals, posters, and postcards turned the Dreyfus Affair into the first modern media event of the ...

For the past 50 years, Texas has been a GOP stronghold. Despite the good efforts of figures such as Beto O’Rourke, Barbara Jordan, and Ann Richards, the state has remained firmly in the grip of big ...

We all like to see where we are going but sometimes need to step into the dark. Consider a slightly revised version of the Parable of the Streetlight: An economist is searching for lost keys under a ...

On June 7, 1955, the Italian national newspaper La Stampa announced—with the pompous optimism typical of the postwar years—that “work on the bridge over the Strait of Messina will begin in one month.” ...

A large heron flew over the shore of Lake Michigan at dusk, with cardboard wings spanning sixteen feet—the width of the four activists who held up the puppet’s structural rods. Its wings flapped up ...

This episode revisits birthright citizenship, both the Supreme Court’s opinion and Trump v. Barbara, and the more recent executive orders where the Trump Administration, once again, tries to take a ...

In an influential 1992 essay “The Gender of Sound,” the poet and classicist Anne Carson traced how Western culture has historically gendered sound, treating the female voice as excessive, disorderly, ...

On the corner of Bale Road in Sharrington, North Norfolk, where birds still sing in the hawthorn and the road runs out towards open country, stands a phone box. The older type, smaller than people ...

This episode looks at recent actions and policies taken by the Trump administration that are having significant impacts on international students and US higher education in general, an appropriate ...

Human rights activists protest outside a San Francisco US Immigration court, calling for an extension to the TPS program (February 2, 2026) | Phil Pasquini / Shutterstock In August, The Wall Street ...

In places like this, where signal is patchy, and a public phone is still available to walkers, drivers, and older residents, infrequent use is not the same thing as no need.