MAGA political energy across the country, and yet the most recent Quinnipiac University poll found that 53 percent of Democrats disapprove of how the Democratic Party is doing in Congress. Senate ...

If the Ayotzinapa case goes unpunished, there will never be a commitment from the state to resolve the broader issue.

May 22, 2025. Abundance Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson Avid Reader Press, $30 (cloth) In their new book, Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that American liberals have ironically succumbed ...

August 16, 2021. 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 ...

The U.S.S.R’s defectors and escapees had helped shape U.S. definitions of freedom since the onset of the Cold War, but Solzhenitsyn was unique. Born the year after the October Revolution into a ...

April 13, 2023. This essay appears in print in Is Equal Opportunity Enough?.. In June 2020 Donald Trump tweeted, in characteristically hyperbolic style, that his administration had “done more for the ...

I happily participated in Black Reconstruction study groups and public forums meant to divine wisdom for our current movements. But I often wondered why no one was scrambling to resurrect T. Thomas ...

Cox’s book refuted the “caste school” of race relations. For nearly a decade, Cox had challenged scholars who compared U.S. race relations to the caste system in India—caste being a religious-social ...

For me the suit represents what we owe African Americans: the hope of equal protection under the law and a concrete tool for it. It goes without saying that we also owe them our very existence in ...

How Not to Do Industrial Policy. Instead of pouring public funds into private industry—as the U.S. did with COVID-19 vaccines—we must build public capacity and prioritize public objectives.

July 22, 2020. When James Baldwin visited San Francisco in 1963 to film a documentary about U.S. racism, he encountered neighborhoods in turmoil: the city was seizing properties through eminent domain ...

June 01, 2023. As summer heat intensifies across the northern hemisphere, we face a grim annual ritual. Public health officials will warn that heat can kill and advise cities and citizens to take ...