Janice Fine explains how “co-enforcement”—a bold new model for upholding labor law—is linking the state to social movements.

How a little-understood feature of urban finance—municipal bonds—fuels racial inequality.

Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Margaret Burnham on her work in reconstructing Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.

What happens when radical historians write for the public.

Fifty years ago, the American Indian Movement occupied the site of a historic massacre. They won real gains in the face of brutal counterinsurgency tactics.

A conversation with Dan Berger and veteran activists Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons on the origins of Black Power and the work of coalition building.

Even in states without bans on abortion or gender-affirming care, hidden religious restrictions in secular hospitals harm patients.

On violence and the possibility of solidarities in America.

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

Defying conventional political labels and capitalizing on widespread distrust, a range of new movements share the conviction that all power is conspiracy.

Traditional worker organizing has failed on every level. But new approaches are finding success, pointing the way to a more just future.

Despite what Steve King says, the U.S. was never a Christian nation.

Taking a stand against Trump has material consequences for government workers. Here's how we can help.

Throughout the twentieth century, bipartisan consensus was that black youth were latent criminals in need of abundant policing.

Many see gayness as inseparable from city life. But many LGBT Americans—particularly queer black folks—live in rural places. Their invisibility to the gay rights movement is a problem.

A Massachusetts high court ruling acknowledges that black men aren’t wrong for wanting to run from police.

Undocumented immigrants face horrible conditions in U.S. detention, with little legal recourse.

Government has always played an outsize role in creating jobs—and still can.

America continues to be haunted by our need to grieve.

Integration doesn’t guarantee equality or freedom.

States are stealing from orphans to pad their budgets. And it's legal.

The DOJ says it will stop using private prisons. The truth is more complicated.

Trump may have just been running off at the mouth, but policy experts agree he’s not entirely wrong about our dysfunctional relationship with NATO.

The ideas in the movement’s new manifesto would enrich our practice of democracy.

The U.S. turns a blind eye on the murder of environmentalist Berta Cáceres.

On the cruelties the South doles out to animals, children, and black folks.

Debt still sends many people—especially black people—to jail.

Startups aren't the magic bullet for economic growth.

How did we come to view social insurance as socialist?

Government incentives may make us less moral, not more.

Local government can't fix our problems. Only big government can.

Images of police violence against African Americans have a radical heritage.

After fourteen years, Mohamedou Ould Slahi may finally have a chance at freedom.

Should we apply peer review to government?

Prosecutors are corrupting the intent of lynching laws.

The enduring impact of President Johnson’s Crime Commission.

Cities are now playgrounds for the rich, with the poor forced into suburbs.

Suddenly conservatives want us to believe they care about homophobia.

Rapists should be held accountable. But is more incarceration the best way?