America, the Juvenile

The Trump administration is a regime of troubled grade-schoolers.
Amherst College faculty recently passed a resolution affirming their commitment to democratic values amidst perceived threats. Critics argue this selective outrage reinforces the stereotype ...
Dr. Casey Means, President Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, graduated from the Stanford School of Medicine but abandoned ...
Reshada Crouse’s bravura account of her life and work begins with an encounter with the devil, as she frames it. The occasion is a visit to the Prado in Madrid. As an art student, she tells us, her ...
Shortly after the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, the political right spent a lot of time parsing whether the word “insurrection” was an apt description of the day’s events.
Five years after a bloody vote left dozens dead, Uganda’s 2026 campaign season has been eerily calm. But some say the silence is carefully staged and hotspots have already been defused.
Trump cannot be president again. But he and his loyal followers have every reason for wanting to make people think he can.
Tanzania’s army chiefs appear rattled, and fingers are pointed at President Samia’s son Abdul Halim Hafidh Ameir, accused of ...
As Trump’s ramblings about his cognitive test accidentally reveals his unfitness, a critic of political media explains how ...
Collective political education and organizing become particularly important during periods when the government is cracking ...
The Ala is Akure people’s totem. It is formidable in their estimation. Its huge stature is such that a poetry of their pedigree is incomplete without it juggling their memories that, in a single ...