I learned my name was on the list from a Jewish colleague at my university, a woman I hardly know. “I need to tell you ...

The Trump administration has unfrozen a Biden-era hold on powerful Israeli-made spyware, now in the hands of U.S. Immigration ...

We are indeed going to have to live with each other, barring apocalyptic violence—but we already have been for quite some ...

What counts as “violence,” and what counts as “order,” are always political determinations made by those in power.

More than a century before Zohran Mamdani declared he wanted a New York City network of grocery stores “focused on keeping ...

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2023 marks one hundred years since the founding of the Institute for Social Research. Better known today as the Frankfurt School, the Institute’s theorists—among them Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, ...

U.S. history is a strange, exceptional field of play where, to paraphrase Garrison Keillor’s famous sign-off from Lake Wobegon, all the revolutions are strong, all the revolutionaries are kind, and ...

I would like to stage a fight between two different accounts of the current political landscape—what’s been called the “post-truth” era, the infodemic, the end of democracy, or perhaps most accurately ...

When James Baldwin visited San Francisco in 1963 to film a documentary about U.S. racism, he encountered neighborhoods in turmoil: the city was seizing properties through eminent domain, razing them, ...