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

During the Cold War, El Paso public schools knew this too when they taught the children of former Nazis how to be white Americans.

Condemning Putin's war must go hand in hand with imagining a more just security order.

Corporate restructurings are not a cure-all, but they would tilt the balance of power toward ordinary Americans.

Selma James’s work with the Wages for Housework movement shows that we ignore the labor of care at our own peril.

In the 1970s, gay and lesbian West Germans sought to forge political solidarity from sexual identity.

The sex wars of the 1980s were about much more than pornography.

Though the organization’s legacy has been domesticated, its grassroots leadership embraced the global fight for freedom.

Well-meaning nonprofits don’t go far enough in the fight against gentrification. Residents themselves must be in charge, and neighborhood trusts point the way.

Two books on the Constitution reflect a vigorous debate about what has changed in the American past—and what hasn’t.

Because it hinges on who will accept blame for causing climate change, there’s never been so much at stake in the naming of a geological era.

Today’s social movements are grappling once again with a central challenge for the New Left: how to remedy injustice while maintaining vitality and independence from the political system.

A sweeping new history of humanity upends the story of civilization, inviting us to imagine how our own societies could be radically different.

Haitian migrants have been subjected to decades of brutal mistreatment by the U.S. government, much of which unfolded at Cuban detention facilities.

Our mastery over microbes is only a few decades old. It is also far more precarious than we imagine.

Tactical critiques of the war's conduct are a distraction from U.S. imperialism.

Even as they carve out space for Black scholarship, established universities remain deeply complicit in racial capitalism. We must think beyond them.

A veteran AIDS activist looks back on the 1990s.

Democrats don’t lose elections because of rising prices. They lose when they cut spending and raise interest rates, sacrificing other goals at the altar of price stability.