Tag: History

Articles in politics tagged with history

Lisa Heinzerling

How Government Ends

Through an assault on administrative agencies, the Supreme Court is systematically eroding the legal basis of effective governance.

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Faisal Devji

Salman Rushdie and the Neoliberal Culture Wars

Far from a metaphysical battle between fanaticism and tolerance, the Rushdie affair exemplifies the marketization of hurt sentiments.

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Charisse Burden-Stelly Jodi Dean

Before #HotLaborSummer

Decades ago, Black communist women decided to organize, fight, and win.

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Jonathan Kirshner

The Education of Ben Bernanke

In his new book, the former Fed chair cuts through economic orthodoxy on central banking. But he fails to reckon deeply with its political consequences.

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Jonna Perrillo

The Mexican Revolution as U.S. History

In her new book, historian Kelly Lytle Hernández makes the case for why U.S. history only makes sense when told as a binational story.

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Portrait of historian Robin D.G. Kelley
Robin D. G. Kelley

Twenty Years of Freedom Dreams

Robin D. G. Kelley published his pathbreaking history of the Black radical imagination in 2002. Where are we two decades later?

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Lisa L. Miller

Up from Federalism

In the age of Trump, some progressives have embraced state power as a boon to democracy. We should be skeptical.

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Mie Inouye

Labor’s Militant Minority

How a new class of “salts”—radicals who take jobs to help unionization—is boosting the organizing efforts of long-term workers.

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Edin Hajdarpašić

Do They Know We’re Here?

On war and belonging, thirty years after the siege of Sarajevo began.

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Marta Figlerowicz

Imagining Ukraine

Poland and Russia both think of Ukraine as a seat of authentic Slavic culture. A new translation of Józef Czapski’s war memoir highlights how this has often clashed with Ukraine’s independence.

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