Cover art by Edel Rodriguez
Editors’ Note
COLUMN
A Year of Magical Thinking
Elite impunity has fueled the fantasy that catastrophes are for other people.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
ROUNDTABLE
Imperial Anxieties
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
Peyman Jafari, Ali Kadivar, Manijeh Moradian, Naghmeh Sohrabi, and Alex Shams
Dispatches from the forever wars
The Catastrophe That Has Befallen All of Us
Life under U.S.-Israeli bombardment.
Translated from Persian by Naghmeh Sohrabi
Millenarian Fantasies
Ethnic cleansing in Lebanon.
Joelle M. Abi-Rached
The Shadow of Iraq
Crisis returns to Baghdad.
Nabil Salih
At the Gates of Hell
Settler violence in the West Bank.
Raja Shehadeh
FEATURES
Sovereignty’s End and Beginning
Statehood and self-determination in Somaliland.
Farah Bakaari
War’s Queer Face
Portraits and stories from Ukraine.
J. Lester Feder
The Novelists and the Warmongers
Mary McCarthy’s Vietnam reporting.
Andrew Holter
How Not to Abolish ICE
Borders are the heart of fascism.
Harsha Walia
REVIEWS
Good Lives
Jan Grue
The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century
by Dagmar Herzog. Princeton, 2024.
The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality
by Joel Michael Reynolds. University of Minnesota, 2022.
The Art of Flourishing: Conversations on Disability
edited by Liz Bowen, Joel Michael Reynolds, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, and Erik Parensby. Oxford, 2025.
The Machines Get in the Way
Luke Dunne
Your Name Here
by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff. Dalkey Archive Press, 2025.
Art Thieves
Jacob Rubin
The Mastermind
directed by Kelly Reichardt. Filmscience and Mubi, 2025.
The Spirit of ’76
David Waldstreicher
The American Revolution
directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt. Florentine Films and WETA, 2025.
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
by Jill Lepore. Liveright, 2025.
Money and the Making of the American Revolution
by Andrew David Edwards. Princeton, 2025.
The American Revolution and the Fate of the World
by Richard Bell. Riverhead Books, 2025.
Freedom Round the Globe: A World History of the American Revolution
by Sarah M. S. Pearsall. Doubleday, 2026.
The Unfinished Business of 1776: Why the American Revolution Never Ended
by Thomas Richards Jr. The New Press, 2026.
The Long Revolution: Creating a United States After 1776
by Nathan Perl-Rosenthal. Basic Books, 2026.
