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Among them are Kimberlé Crenshaw, Angela Davis, bell hooks, and Robin D. G. Kelley. You can read them here.
On reading outside the university.
Two new books critique poverty capital, but they don’t ask what borrowers need.
This is my version of the story, but I will illuminate only a corner of it, one that ran parallel to and underneath it, revealing what was left in its wake.
Yawning gaps in the law empower police to collect and store massive amounts of data, all on the grounds that it might one day turn out useful.
Rare earth mining will disrupt local climate resilience. Who should pay the price?
Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.
When Desmond Tutu reconciled African theology and Black theology.
The problem isn’t new; it’s the bordered logic of global apartheid itself.
German leaders have responded to war in Ukraine with huge increases in defense spending, breaking with the culture of pacifism that emerged after World War II and marking a new wave of militarization.
As the war continues with no end in sight, the country’s ability to prevail at the front will depend on how badly the war damages life on the ground.
The Global South will suffer the most as colonial legacies, climate change, and capitalism continue to plunge millions into hunger.
Yawning gaps in the law empower police to collect and store massive amounts of data, all on the grounds that it might one day turn out useful.
Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.
Alongside select archival essays, this special project features lawyers, activists, historians and more responding to the demands of the 2020 uprisings.
This is my version of the story, but I will illuminate only a corner of it, one that ran parallel to and underneath it, revealing what was left in its wake.
When you were / in the Everglades we canoed from Flamingo and through the canals.
“Abroadness became my obsession.” When a young Nigerian girl is invited to go live with her uncle in Canada, it sets in motion a peculiar friendship with someone she has long envied.
My feet moved down another street / and I saw the shape they would draw / on the map in my mind.
“You can’t go to Mass like that.” A woman’s mother wakes up dramatically transformed, leading to a reappraisal of their relationships.
Look at my heartbeat / and its consequence, / that cup warm on my palm
Both regulators and employers have embraced new technologies for on-the-job monitoring, turning a blind eye to unjust working conditions.
They may seem the cornerstone of democracy, but in reality they do little to promote it. There’s a far better way to empower ordinary citizens: democracy by lottery.
Two new books examine the ordinary roots of our extraordinary regime of high-tech monitoring.
The Federal Reserve’s bid to “get wages down” reflects the enduring hold of neoliberal thought at the highest levels of economic policymaking.
Democratic theory points to two problems: unjust concentrations of power and a flawed theory of knowledge.
This special project begins with a world in crisis—after forty years of market fundamentalism—and asks how we build a new one.
How can the literary imagination bring us closer to a better world?
In this new anthology of poetry, fiction, and essays from renowned writers and newcomers, contributors contemplate how speculation can lead us to collectively imagine better futures, or better ways of understanding our past.
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What we have achieved this year—and our plans for 2023. Read the report here.
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