Every February, on Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, Americans rehearse a familiar liturgy. Lincoln is praised as the Great ...

In her new book, Alyssa Battistoni explores how nature came to be treated as a supposedly cost-free supplement of capital ...

MAGA envisions undoing nearly all of modern history and returning to some primal, purified state of nature, or rather a meme ...

One abiding characteristic of the right-wing personality is that when he is not dominating others, he feels persecuted. That ...

Companies are racing to acquire key resources: intelligence, energy, capital, and labor. Control over these resources can ...

Laura Field’s Furious Minds is a deeply brilliant, important, but ultimately disturbing account of a set of ideas that may ...

In China, the number of single-person households has increased along with rates of loneliness. In this respect, China is not unique. It is simply suffering from the same social dislocation affecting ...

Peer into The Economist’s decision-making processes with Robert Guest, our deputy editor, who explains how we select and design our front cover. Cover Story shares preliminary sketches and documents ...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s economic justice plan, which included full employment with living wages, a guaranteed income, and affordable housing, is still relevant today as economic inequality remains a ...