We asked 12 writers for their predictions—and recommendations for how to save democracy.

Responsive organizing is essential to achieving policy reform.

Czechoslovakia’s “Velvet Divorce” offers a model for dealing with America’s irreconcilable differences.

For 26 years, Eliot wrote intense, passionate letters to Emily Hale. Should they change the way we read his poetry?

The Passenger is an unusually loose, warm novel—full of theories and anecdotes, memories and stories.

How election deniers, covid skeptics, and a Thomas Jefferson impersonator are disrupting the upstate New York retreat for the elites.

How Americans lost faith in the possibility of self-government

Our civil legal system is stacked against poor and middle-class people. Has Utah figured out the solution?

After Democrats’ success in the midterms, Biden keeps defying the chattering class of pundits and proving politically savvy.

Nikyatu Jusu’s portrait of a nanny’s breakdown fuses horror and social realism.

The Simpsons character and the guy ruining Twitter often sound a lot alike.

Politicians and pundits across the political spectrum warn of a return to the decade of stagflation, urban decay, and labor mutiny. Their solution? The failed policies of the 1970s.

Gurnah’s haunting novels of war and oppression, which won him the Nobel Prize in literature last year, defy the dominant trends in American publishing.

Over the last half-century, economics has infiltrated parts of the federal government where it has no business intruding. It can be a useful tool for policymaking, but it’s become the only tool. It’s time for economics to back the hell off.

Longtermists focus on ensuring humanity’s existence into the far future. But not without sacrifices in the present.

At its peak in the eighteenth century, Jena in Germany may have had a higher concentration of geniuses than Renaissance Florence or ancient Athens—and plenty of drama.

How John Roberts lost control of the Supreme Court