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MacArthur Genius Kelly Lytle Hernández makes the case for why U.S. history only makes sense when told as a binational story.
Robin D. G. Kelley published his pathbreaking history of the Black radical imagination in 2002. Where are we two decades later?
Boston Review speaks with Rachel Rebouché on the post-Dobbs legal landscape.
Sex workers are labor’s vanguard. The left ignores them at its peril.
In the age of Trump, some progressives have embraced state power as a boon to democracy. We should be skeptical.
Condemning U.S. deference to Israel, a cousin remembers the life and legacy of the slain Palestinian American journalist.
The strategy of “leaderless resistance” has allowed white power activists to disguise the extent of their organizing. But their desperation to prevent a public reckoning with the country’s racist past points the way toward how to fight them.
The systems that harm animals go hand in hand with systems that harm humans. Combating them requires inter-species solidarity.
We must reject the legal liberalism that attempts to cordon off constitutional questions from democratic politics.
Amidst the January 6 hearings, the fiftieth anniversary of Nixon’s scandal reminds us that it has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.
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Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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