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Law & Justice, Race

How the Government Built a Trap for Black Youth

Throughout the twentieth century, bipartisan consensus was that black youth were latent criminals in need of abundant policing.

Kelly Lytle Hernández

Politics, War & Security

Putin’s More Perfect Union

The idea that Putin is driven by the philosophy of Eurasianism obscures the pragmatism of Russia's foreign policy. 

Jordan Michael Smith

Literature & Culture

The New World Order

The 1850s were a turning point for globalization, from telegraphs to colonization.

Matthew Karp

Literature & Culture, Philosophy & Religion

Deconstruction: An American Tale

Lampooned as a dangerous import from Paris, deconstruction is in fact a distinctively American phenomenon.

Gregory Jones-Katz

Gender & Sexuality

Queer in Rural America

Many see gayness as inseparable from city life. But many LGBT Americans—particularly queer black folks—live in rural places. Their invisibility to the gay rights movement is a problem.

Hugh Ryan

Gender & Sexuality, Literature & Culture

Introduction to Reading Other Women

A new series explores how reading works by global women of color is generative.

Rafia Zakaria

Politics

Between Experts and Citizens

Brexit is an episode in the long contest between rulers and the working class.

Jo Guldi

Gender & Sexuality, Literature & Culture

Transparents

When your father is trans, memoir is both personal and political.

Judith Levine

Fiction, Literature & Culture

Underneath the Darkness

Yuri Herrera's first two novels explore Mexican border identity. 

Aaron Bady

Forum

Confronting Religious Revivalism

Liberal democracy requires that we banish religion from politics.

Avishai Margalit & Assaf Sharon

Class & Inequality, Politics

Great Exploitations

States are stealing from orphans to pad their budgets. And it's legal.

Erik Loomis

Politics, Race

What Does Black Lives Matter Want?

The ideas in the movement’s new manifesto would enrich our practice of democracy.

Robin D. G. Kelley

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