The saga of the Klamath provokes a more fundamental, yet often ignored, set of questions: What is a river for? Irrigation?

The United States has never been “a nation of immigrants.” It has always been a settler state with a core of descendants from the original colonial settlers, that is, primarily Anglo-Saxons, Scots, ...

The Dream Hoarders Focusing on the top 1 percent is a mistake. The real class divide is between the upper middle class—the top 20 percent—and the rest of America.

Skra, a camp in the Republic of Georgia, is considered one of the best refugee camps in the world. Although the cinderblock houses have electricity, there is no running water. Since the only source of ...

Sovereign states have been wrongly mythologized as the natural unit of political order.

To deliver plentiful housing and clean energy, we have to get the story right about what’s standing in the way.

In the mid-twentieth century, city governments, backed by federal money, demolished hundreds of Black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal.

Forms of gender-specific violence are baked into the structure of law enforcement. Reform efforts will fail until we eliminate police discretion over women’s bodies.

Nothing stretches our thinking about the mind the way an octopus does.

On violence and the possibility of solidarities in America.

Why We Shouldn’t Compare Transracial to Transgender Identity Unlike gender inequality, racial inequality primarily accumulates across generations. Transracial identification undermines collective ...

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