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Editors' Note

Announcing the Inaugural Black Voices in the Public Sphere Fellows

Join us in welcoming Nia T. Evans and Nate File.

Arts in Society

Everyday Mojo Letters to Yusef

A series of creative reflections on why Yusef Komunyakaa remains one of our greatest living writers and what it means to be a Black Jazz Poet.

Arts in Society

Bringing Abolition to the Museum

Artist-activist Shellyne Rodriguez speaks with Billy Anania about museum labor practices and how Strike MoMA imagines a future of art for the people.

Shellyne Rodriguez, Billy Anania

Poetry

In the middle of the road of our life
I wandered upon a dark wood a gloomy wood

A Sigh

Tomás Q. Morín

Global Justice

The United States Can Afford More Refugees

East African countries host seven times more refugees than we do. Their policies look beyond their borders. So should ours.

Alexander Betts

Class & Inequality, Politics

Our Insurance Dystopia

Private insurance companies have long dominated the provision of social security in the United States, but resistance is growing.

Global Justice

What Does Europe Have Against Halal?

Food is becoming a target for anti-Islam politics.

Forum

AI’s Future Doesn’t Have to Be Dystopian

AI can be used to increase human productivity, create jobs and shared prosperity, and protect and bolster democratic freedoms—but only if we modify our approach.

Global Justice

What Isn’t Taught in Israeli Schools

A Palestinian mother’s perspective.

Muzna Awayed-Bishara

Class & Inequality, Politics

In the Common Interest

How a grassroots movement of farmers laid the foundation for state intervention in the economy, challenging the slaveholding South in the run-up to the Civil War.

Chris Hong, Robert Manduca, Nic Johnson

Gender & Sexuality

How Do Gender Transitions Happen?

The public’s obsession with why some people are trans burdens an already marginalized community, and misses the opportunity to ask more interesting questions about identity formation.

Jules Joanne Gleeson

Class & Inequality, Law & Justice

Housing Is a Social Good

The American Jobs Plan mirrors past efforts at affordable housing that contributed to our problems and failed Black Americans. We need to take housing out of the private market.

Gianpaolo Baiocchi, H. Jacob Carlson

Class & Inequality

Portrait of the United States as a Developing Country

Justin H. Vassallo

“Progress for People of Color Doesn’t Come at White Folks’ Expense”

Heather C. McGhee, Archon Fung

Employers, Not Immigrants, Hurt American Workers

Housing Is a Social Good

Gianpaolo Baiocchi, H. Jacob Carlson

We Don't Know, But Let's Try It

Simon Torracinta

The Ever Given and the Monstrosity of Maritime Capitalism

In the Common Interest

Chris Hong, Robert Manduca, Nic Johnson

How Biden Could Save Welfare

Ben Zdencanovic

Our Insurance Dystopia

Science & Nature

Medicine for the People

Poetry in the Critical Zone

Race, Policing, and the Limits of Social Science

The Feminist Past History Can't Give Us

AI’s Future Doesn’t Have to Be Dystopian

No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies

Science Doesn't Work That Way

Gregory E. Kaebnick

New Book: Redesigning AI

From the Editors: Redesigning AI

Deborah Chasman, Joshua Cohen

READING LISTS

Archival Essays for Juneteenth

READING LIST

“It is a commonplace to say that slavery ‘dehumanized’ enslaved people, but to do so is misleading, harmful, and worth resisting.”

Five Years without Cedric Robinson

READING LIST

A collection of our best essays on the distinguished political theorist, racial capitalism, and the Black radical tradition.

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