Opinions

A retired CIA station chief was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison on November 20 for selling classified information he combed from top secret US government databases to Angola’s ruling elite.

In the early 1830s, Asenath Nicholson’s boardinghouse in lower Manhattan was a favorite gathering spot for reformers of all stripes.

Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is easily the most successful political party in the developed capitalist world.

Rising levels of inequality are the defining political and economic issue of our times.

In 2023, a friend took me to a night of off-Broadway theater in downtown Manhattan.

The fact that the meeting was even happening was enough to produce an air of subversive excitement.

The challenge of climate change is aptly called “civilizational.”

There was a time when people imagined AI’s final form as a great metallic beast with malice in its mind — or, perhaps more realistically, as an unseen yet limitless network of accumulated knowledge that could render humanity obsolete simply by outperforming it.

When Charlie Kirk was murdered earlier this fall, he was upheld as a martyr by conservatives not just in America but globally.

There’s a lot to dislike about the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Since losing his US visa for comments he made at a pro-Palestine rally in New York City, Colombian president Gustavo Petro has not backed down.

Crime fiction’s critics have long argued that the genre is inherently conservative.

The Trump administration is sabotaging a legal defense program for tens of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children, according to government documents and an internal letter from immigration lawyers sounding the alarm reviewed by The Lever.

Zohran Mamdani ran his campaign for New York City on two messages: making the city affordable and taxing the rich.

The Right is often unsure what time it wants to live in.

In 2018, Jeremy Corbyn seemed like a prime-minister-in-waiting.

At a time when Democratic voters are demanding new, antiestablishment leaders, the Democratic Party’s power brokers are pushing a seventy-seven-year-old candidate for a key 2026 Senate race who’s spent the past six years as governor vetoing collective bargaining rights for workers, tax increases on the wealthy, renter protections, and tribal sovereignty protections, according to a […]

Sven Beckert’s doorstop of a book is supremely ambitious, an insightful and well-illustrated history by the Harvard historian who has been a pioneer in the creation of new narratives exploring how an ever-changing capitalism has been a socially and culturally rooted phenomenon.

When Medicare for All took center stage in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, opponents undercut growing support for the initiative by homing in on how it would raise taxes and eliminate health insurers.

In a recent appearance on CNN, right-wing pundit Batya Ungar-Sargon defended the Trump administration’s policy of blowing up boats off the Venezuelan coast that it claims are carrying drugs.