As we struggle to answer his policies with progressive alternatives, the history of popular economic nationalism and its ...

Francis challenged the ethnonationalism of the U.S. Catholic right. With the election of Leo XIV, the battle lines are being ...

Far from safeguarding democracy, America’s system of government helped create this authoritarian moment—and only mass ...

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Stephen H. Schneider (1945–2010) was Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Stanford University and Coordinating Lead Author of the IPCC's working group on ...

This essay is featured in our Spring 2025 issue. Subscribe to get a copy. When news of the end of the Vietnam War arrived fifty years ago, immortalized in images of U.S. helicopters lifting off from ...