What distinguishes Zohran Mamdani's socialism is not its aims. It’s his willingness to take seriously the problem of how to ...

Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here ...

Passed through Congress even as the wreckage of rebellions was still visible, the HUD Act, in tandem with the Fair Housing Act, was intended to transform American cities and suburbs. Unlike Fair ...

Manuel Pastor June 13, 2025 Faith leaders pray in front of National Guard officers at a protest in Los Angeles on June 10, 2025. (Courtesy of Joseph Tomás McKellar) Los Angeles is convulsing—and maybe ...

For the first several decades of its existence, Israel’s democratic deficit could be brushed off as circumstantial. The Jewish state, the story went, lived in a violent neighborhood and had to deal ...

Before Josey Wales’s life was viciously destroyed by a right-wing celluloid fantasy of federal authority, his Jeffersonian idyll was in the state of Missouri. As Walter Johnson shows with a furious ...

Ross Perlin is co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance. His latest book is Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York. Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor’s ...

From mental healthcare to internet access, the unequal experience of learning during the pandemic reminds us of the important role institutions like universities and governments can—and must—play in ...

RaMell Ross is a visual artist, photographer, and writer. He is an assistant professor in Brown University’s visual arts department. Max Fraser is an assistant professor of American history at the ...

In April’s presidential election, Macron’s trump card was opposition to the far right. Even voters on the left who had been disgusted by the president’s massaging of conservative sympathies, his ...