Even before 1960, when seventeen countries in Africa gained independence in a single year, American diplomats had identified ...

Critics are right: the algorithms that increasingly run the world can be dangerous. Are human systems always better?

Down a tree-lined street near my grandmother’s house in Tehran is a mosque where locals go to chat, rest, and sometimes even pray. In the back of the mosque, behind a small library, is an office for a ...

Alex Shams is a writer and anthropologist with a PhD from the University of Chicago. His work has appeared in New York Magazine, The New Republic, and elsewhere. A political and literary forum, ...

This is a perilous moment for independent media. As a small nonprofit—with no sponsor or endowment—we rely on the generosity of readers to support our work. Will you please consider making a ...

This is a perilous moment for independent media. As a small nonprofit—with no sponsor or endowment—we rely on the generosity of readers to support our work. Will you please consider making a ...

This is a perilous moment for independent media. As a small nonprofit—with no sponsor or endowment—we rely on the generosity of readers to support our work. Will you please consider making a ...

This is a perilous moment for independent media. As a small nonprofit—with no sponsor or endowment—we rely on the generosity of readers to support our work. Will you please consider making a ...

Mohamad Bazzi is Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University and former Middle East Bureau Chief at Newsday, where he was the lead writer on the 2003 Iraq war and its aftermath. A former ...

Interns gain exposure to the world of magazine editing and publishing by assisting with fact checking, proofreading, evaluating submissions, web and newsletter production, and other engagement and ...

Keeping Markets in Their Place I am grateful to the discussants for their thoughtful responses. The two libertarians, Matt Welch and John Tomasi, worry that keeping markets in their place violates ...