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Decolonizing Politics
Mahmood Mamdani considers how to restore the full benefits of citizenship to permanent minorities in post-colonial societies.
Using Formalism to Explore U.S. Systems of Power
Through careful and often irreverent uses of traditional poetic forms, Amit Majmudar offers affecting insights into geopolitics and contemporary life, from the War on Terror to hyperincarceration.
An Antiracist Agenda for Medicine
Colorblind solutions have failed to achieve racial equity in health care. We need both federal reparations and real institutional accountability.
Derek Chauvin and the Myth of the Impartial Juror
What should “impartiality” mean for jurors in a historically unequal criminal legal system?
Who Is Afraid of Race?
There is a cost to replacing race with caste in our analysis of oppression: we erase anti-Blackness.
The Politics of the Anthropocene in a World After Neoliberalism
Can today’s crises inspire action at the scales required to think about planetary sustainability?
Use Sunlight Locally (or Lose It)
A new “solar homesteading law” could harness rays of sun that fall on roofs and parking lots in cities and advance the aims of energy democracy.
Is There a Right to Heresy?
A proposed French bill says so. But, strictly speaking, there can be no such thing as blasphemy within the terms of secular public order.
Straight Down to the Bones
Black Arts poet Sonia Sanchez discusses the ancestral influences on her work and how art can give us strength.
Why Cornel West’s Tenure Fight Matters
I wrote letters for West’s hire and renewal at Harvard. The school’s administrators completely miss the point of tenure.
We Can No Longer Deny the Atrocities in Ethiopia
A civil war in the northern region of Tigray broke out in November. Denial within the international community has prevented much-needed humanitarian aid.
The Value of Truth
At a time of anxiety about fake news and conspiracy theories, philosophy can contribute to our most urgent cultural and political questions about how we come to believe what we think we know.
A People’s Anthology: Episode Three
“The Black Revolution: A Struggle for Political Power” by Jesse Gray.
A People’s Anthology: Episode Two
“The July Rebellions and the ‘Military State’” by Jack O’Dell.
Who Deserves to Be Forgiven?
Forgiveness is a public good, but it is doled out unevenly. Justice demands we widen its reach beyond the select few.
A People’s Anthology: Episode One
Carole Boyce Davies on Claudia Jones’s “An End of the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!”
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