Tag: History

Revisiting When Affirmative Action Was White, nearly two decades on.

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

Just as abolitionists fought the Fugitive Slave Act, those resisting the criminalization of reproductive health can employ jury nullification.

The celebrated novelist treated the past seriously, depicting its psychological complexity and drawing out its present-day political implications.

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

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

And what today’s organizers can learn from them.

His new book cuts through economic orthodoxy on central banking. But he fails to reckon deeply with its political consequences.

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.

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

Inspired by the rediscovery of Shackleton's HMS Endurance, we revisit two centuries of lessons in leadership from getting trapped in Antarctica's Weddell Sea.

To escape the imperial legacies of the IMF and World Bank, we need a radical new vision for global economic governance.

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

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

As the neoliberal order unravels, the international economic system can and must make room for cooperative forms of state-driven development.

Though a means of escaping and undermining racial injustice, the practice comes with own set of costs and sacrifices.

Pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos sought to redeem the field from its methodological fragmentation and colonial legacies.

Challenges to Christian political control are often spun as threats to child welfare.

The commodity’s bloody history is instructive of how global capitalism can and can’t be fixed.

T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.

Why groundbreaking queer studies scholar Leo Bersani rejected the word “queer.”

King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.

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