Celebrations of multiculturalism obscure the country’s settler colonial history—and the role that immigrants play in perpetuating it.

The community development industry has failed in the fight for fair housing. Despite claiming to involve residents, power and self-interest still have the final say.

This summer, an intelligence report and a new Harvard research project have renewed the public’s interest in UFOs. But neither is likely to change many minds.

While Japanese and U.S. officials celebrate a demilitatization in the pacific islands, Okinawans protest persistent military colonialism.

Billionaires such as Musk, Bezos, and Branson peddle the idea that space represents a public hope, all the while reaping big private profits.

Seventy years after the civil preparedness film Duck and Cover, it is long past time to reckon with the way white supremacy shaped U.S. nuclear defense efforts during the Cold War.

The fight over the American Jobs Plan reflects a long history of competing visions of public works—and, most of all, who should benefit from rebuilding.

A Palestinian mother’s perspective.

The director’s life reflected both the feats and the failures of the postwar U.S. experience.

Not all research is at stake, however, only work that reveals the role of ethnic Poles in the persecution of Poland’s Jews.

Sovereign states have been mythologized as the natural unit of political order. History shows how new they are—and how we can think beyond them.

Derecka Purnell interviews historian Elizabeth Hinton about her new book and how talk of “riots” discredits Black political demands.

Sarah Schulman’s history of ACT UP NY shows how AIDS activists forced the government to accept that they mattered.

Watch our release of documentary short The Rifleman on the NRA. Then read an interview with filmmaker Sierra Pettengill and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.

Dispelling myths of entrepreneurial exceptionalism, a sweeping new history of U.S. capitalism finds that economic gains have always been driven by the state.

Detroit police killed hundreds of unarmed Blacks in response to the civil rights movement.

A more complete, bottom-up picture of the role sailors and Black political actors played in making the Atlantic world.

In the 1974 cult-classic teleplay Penda’s Fen, the past holds the key to escaping the catastrophic present.