The new apprentice

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

Jacob Silverman

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

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 reactionary radical’s case against progress

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.