Politics
Poland’s Memory Politics Are Rewriting History
The country’s ruling party is suppressing research and cultural work on the role of ethnic Poles in the persecution of Poland’s Jews.
Beyond the Nation-State
Sovereign states have been wrongly mythologized as the natural unit of political order.
The Power of the Party
Founded a century ago, the Chinese Communist Party has repeatedly defied predictions of its demise.
How Israel Weaponizes International Law
The country has manipulated rules of engagement to serve its colonialist project in Palestine.
The World of Edward Said
His milieu was one of global, and specifically Palestinian, anticolonial struggle.
How the Modern NRA Was Born at the Border
Watch our release of the documentary short The Rifleman. Then read an interview with the filmmaker.
The War on Critical Race Theory
The highly orchestrated right-wing attacks cast a body of scholarship about race in the law as a great threat to American society.
The Monstrosity of Maritime Capitalism
Two books unmask the colossal shipping industry behind global trade.
Police and the License to Kill
Detroit police killed hundreds of unarmed Black people in response to the civil rights movement.
The New Politics of Higher Education
The right’s fantasy of left power on campus has never been accurate.
How We Speak About the Failure of the PLO
Accounts still get the history of Palestinian diplomacy wrong.
New Book: Redesigning AI
Exploring work, democracy, and justice in the age of automation, Daron Acemoglu and other contributors sketch an urgent vision for redirecting the course of technological change for good. Preorder our Spring 2021 book now.
Petra Kelly and the Radical Green Past
The Greens are on track to become Germany’s second strongest party. Was abandoning radicalism was the right choice?
Decolonizing Politics
Mahmood Mamdani considers how to restore the full benefits of citizenship to permanent minorities in post-colonial societies.
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!”
The Americans Who Embraced Mussolini
As we confront rightwing extremism in our own time, the history of American fascist sympathy reveals a legacy worth reckoning with.
From Revolution to Reformism
Leaders of the left abandoned the language of transformation in the 1980s—at a cost. Can it be regained?
Crises and Common Sense
The pandemic holds important political lessons for the climate crisis, but they must be taught.
How Nations Heal
We cannot simply put the past behind us. The framework of transitional justice offers a promising path forward.
Where Trumpism Lives
Pro-Trump support remains driven by relatively well-off whites in fast-growing, diversifying suburbs—not by Rust Belt economic despair.
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