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War & Security

Peace Regimes

Trump has promised a Korean "peace regime." But whose peace is being insured? And who is subject to its imposition?

Philosophy & Religion

The Anti-Immigration Bible

Jeff Sessions is fond of citing the Bible to support the persecution of immigrants, in stark contrast to a long tradition of biblical interpretation.

Philosophy & Religion

Marxism Without Progress

When philosophy tries to reclaim Marx, the duty to interpret comes before the duty to change.

Politics

Trumpism Before Trump

We can’t fully appreciate the current anti-immigration moment without understanding the decades-long investment by right-wing movement politics.

Robert L. Tsai, Calvin TerBeek

Gender & Sexuality

When Gays Wanted to Liberate Children

Seventies activists wanted to emancipate kids and destroy the nuclear family—so how did we end up with gay marriage instead?

Michael Bronski

Law & Justice

Don’t Let Them Eat Cake

The Supreme Court’s Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling continues a terrible trend of valuing businesses more than employees and customers.

Lawrence B. Glickman

Class & Inequality

The Market Police

In the neoliberal project, state power is needed to enforce market relations. But because democratic politics can demand broader economic planning, the site of that power must be hidden from politics.

Philosophy & Religion, Science & Nature

The Defeat of Reason

From quantum physics to the anti-rationalism of Thomas Kuhn.

Politics

California Today, America Tomorrow

Political lessons from the state of resistance.

Fiction

The Recorder

2018 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest winner selected by Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Herselman Hattingh

Class & Inequality

Elon Musk’s Fall from Grace

The public has paid for Musk’s vision. So why is the green economy still not here?

Class & Inequality, Race

Free the Beach

American beaches used to be common property. Now access to many of them is controlled by wealthy whites.

Andrew W. Kahrl

Literature & Culture, Race

Janelle Monáe for President

What Afrofuturism can teach us about surviving Trump.

Christopher Lebron

Global Justice

The Border Is Not a Wall

It is an ever-widening surveillance zone that turns borderland citizens into guardians of the state.

Philosophy & Religion, Race

A Love Supreme

Remembering James H. Cone.

Race

The Forgotten Baldwin

James Baldwin’s book about the Atlanta child murders speaks best to the era of Black Lives Matter.

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Class & Inequality

Who Is Watching Wall Street?

Lenore Palladino

Mark Lilla and the Crisis of Liberalism

Free the Beach

Andrew W. Kahrl

Left Behind by Korea’s Success

The Market Police

Marx’s New Deal

Marshall Steinbaum

The Limits of Antitrust Enforcement

Elon Musk’s Fall from Grace

The Almost Inevitable Failure of Justice

Thad Williamson

Race

Janelle Monáe for President

Christopher Lebron

Baldwin’s Lonely Country

The Almost Inevitable Failure of Justice

Thad Williamson

Free the Beach

Andrew W. Kahrl

A Love Supreme

Brother Martin Was a Blues Man

Guns in the Family

The Forgotten Baldwin

‘Black Panther’ Is Not the Movie We Deserve

Christopher Lebron

The Best of 2017

READING LIST

Here’s a look at our top 25 most-loved stories from the year of Trump.

Our Top Stories on Race in 2017

READING LIST

In 2017, racism and xenophobia have played major roles in U.S. politics. As the year draws to a close, we present our top stories about race, immigration, and the dangerous ideology of white nationalism, from myths about Appalachia to racial capitalism to regimes of deportation.

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