History
Hunted and Banned
Efforts to control Black mobility—from early passports to the Fugitive Slave Act—laid much of the groundwork for today’s border regimes.
Antisemitism’s Afterlives
Even as the concept is weaponized against Palestinians and critics of Israel, the far right has a growing antisemitic base.
The Land Question
Fighting apartheid has become a global paradigm for justice struggles. That’s not how many Black liberationists in South Africa understood their cause.
The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide
Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.
Seizing Kashmir
For decades India has refused to acknowledge Kashmiri demands for self-determination. Now Modi has a new strategy—a settler project.
When We Are All Enemies of the State
A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas.
Kill It with Fire
In Spain, ultra-nationalist efforts to rehabilitate Franco extend the global right’s war on memory.
The Outcasts of Zion
The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of American liberalism’s identity crisis.
Free Markets and Fixed Natures
How neoliberals fell in love with “human nature”—the glue that still unites the divergent factions of the new right.
The Insidious Doctrine Fueling the Case Against Mahmoud Khalil
How a century of immigration law has evaded constitutional rights.
The Violence Prerogative
All oppressive, criminal, and genocidal governments cloak their atrocities in the language of virtue.
Social Security Is Not a Ponzi Scheme
Today’s attacks are just the latest form of backlash to the New Deal.
The Limits of Professional-Class Liberalism
How professionals remade the Democratic Party, narrowing its political vision.
The Lexicon of Empire
The long battle between liberals and Black intellectuals over the meaning of colonialism.
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