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Linda Greenhouse
Are Sheriffs Above the Law?

County sheriffs are useful to the right. They appear regularly as talking heads on conservative media, especially on the subject of immigration. Many vignettes of sheriffs in action are dramatic and alarming. But how representative are they?

Scott W. Stern
The Women She Left Behind

Eleanor Roosevelt’s tacit support for a program that jailed sex workers suggests the limits of the elite-led reform efforts she championed.

Christopher de Bellaigue
Elegy for a ‘Separate Civilization’

Scott Preston’s The Borrowed Hills is the strangled, savagely beautiful swan song of the world of the Cumbrian peasant farmer.

Tim Judah
Voting for Their Jobs

Georgia’s capital might lean toward the opposition in next month’s elections—but in smaller towns dissent is weaker and critics still more embattled.

Free from the Archives

Last December, Charles Glass wrote about life in the mountain village of Ehden, Lebanon—where his maternal grandmother was born—in the first months after Hamas’s October 7 attacks in Israel: “If Hezbollah’s skirmishes along the border with Israel flare into a full-scale conflagration, the winter calm in Ehden will end. Fear that the Gaza onslaught could extend to Lebanon is widespread.”

Charles Glass
Letter from Mount Lebanon

“The demise of ancient antagonisms should be a reason for hope in this hopeless land, but it isn’t. Ehden’s tranquility does not hide the fact that peace is precarious here.”

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