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.

In September 1974, at a protest in London, Stuart Hall delivered a speech in support of fellow Caribbean-born radical intellectual Walter Rodney. After being offered a professorship at the University ...

March 01, 2007. The American left is now waking up to the fact that it slumbered while a historic opportunity to aid the poor passed it by. When Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and ...

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 ...

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.