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The legacy of Obama's drone wars
Who paved the road to Trump's war?
Mar 19 • Séamus Malekafzali
Mentioned this week: six books called Audition, and more
Extremely abbreviated reviews from Issue Sixteen
Mar 17 • The Drift
Are the Greens for real?
A dispatch on UK politics by Oliver Eagleton
Mar 13 • The Drift
Bad for people, great for fiction
A Q&A with Andrew Martin
Mar 10 • The Drift
Announcing our summer internship program
Apply by April 10
Mar 5 • The Drift

February 2026

We're a finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction!
Read or revisit these three stories
Feb 26 • The Drift
Where will I be happy?
The Drift's advice column #2
Feb 26
"You might as well call yourself a warlock"
A Q&A with Daniel Poppick
Feb 24 • The Drift
The founding ideology of American empire
Daniel Bessner and Erik Baker on Cold War liberalism and its afterlives
Feb 19 • The Drift
Join us for a conversation about the Epstein files
March 10 at The Bell House
Feb 18 • The Drift
Jeffrey Epstein, litterateur
On his reading and its uses
Feb 12 • The Drift
An event like birth or bike riding
Poems by Leslie McIntosh, Oksana Maksymchuk, and Ethan Seeley, plus new Mentions
Feb 10 • The Drift
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