What Could American-Style Gun Culture Do to Israel?
An Armed, Internally Divided Nation Is Not One That Makes Peace Easily
Among the core Israeli national narratives fractured by the October 7 Hamas terror attacks and the …
Among the core Israeli national narratives fractured by the October 7 Hamas terror attacks and the …
Héctor Tobar is the winner of the 2024 Zócalo Public Square Book Prize for Our Migrant Souls …
Melanie Almeder is the winner of the 2024 Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize for “Coyote Hour” …
In the name of beer sales and taco Tuesday nights, Cinco de Mayo has morphed from a symbol of …
I have been studying and writing about Roman emperors for more than 30 years. I never imagined I would live in a time and place where the judicial system might give more extensive legal immunity to an American president than any Roman emperor ever enjoyed. Until last Thursday.
Contemporary imagination often assumes that Roman emperors enjoyed absolute authority to do what they wanted with their empire’s resources, wealth, and military power. They did not. Rather, Roman emperors were magistrates who …
When I was growing up in the ’80s in Santiago, Chile, during the Pinochet dictatorship, air quality was the environmental problem most present in our lives. It determined whether we could drive that day, how overwhelmed hospitals would be, and whether or not we would have physical education at school.
Global warming was unheard of. And plastic was our friend: a cheap, versatile, and durable material that let us play, move about, and simplify our lives. We never anticipated its long-lastingness would become a problem.
During those politically tumultuous years …
On the rarified second level of SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, amid premium owner suites and premium beer sales, there’s an Angela Davis quote plastered on a wall.
“Our histories never unfold in isolation,” reads the excerpt from the scholar and activist’s 2015 book, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle. “We cannot truly tell what we consider to be our own histories …