Clearing the field

IN HIS ZEAL TO PUNISH OPPONENTS, AS IN SO MUCH else, President Donald Trump has made no secret of being willing to defy norms. He crosses politics with justice—he has been open about having ordered th

When 18-year-old Bernie Sanders enrolled as a freshman at Brooklyn College in 1959, the two-storey, 2,400-seat art deco theatre on campus was called the Walt Whitman Auditorium. It had opened four yea

WHEN DONALD TRUMP HAS SPO-ken of late, many Americans have been less interested in his words than his appearance. Is he wearing more makeup than usual? Any new bruises? Is he steady? It is perhaps a r

Outgoing Mayor Mike Duggan tells Newsweek how Detroit rebuilt pride and prosperity after bankruptcy—and why the city’s resurgence is powered by its people

A great upheaval is under way. Who will inherit the Earth? Late in life, the 18th-century French liberal thinker Abbé Sieyès was asked what he had done during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.

Jacob Silverman