Politics

Twenty years of cruel anti-immigrant policy have left thousands of asylum seekers in limbo, detained in offshore prisons or in mainland commercial hotels.

Racial redress should be modeled on the global anticolonial tradition of worldbuilding.

The threat to American democracy springs, most fundamentally, from the social fragmentation wrought by a post-industrial economy.

A recording of our event featuring Noam Chomsky, Sally Abed, Omar Dahi, Alon-lee Green, Congressman Jim McGovern, and Dr. James Zogby, President of the Arab-American Institute.

The United States ranked first on health security; then came COVID-19. In place of technocratic hubris, we need robust new forms of democratic humility.

New tools and technology policy might help, but politics come first.

Critiques of vaccine mandates continue a neoliberal tradition of idolizing private choice at the expense of the public good.

Though the organization’s legacy has been domesticated, its grassroots leadership embraced the global fight for freedom.

Like the 1619 Project, two new books on the Constitution reflect a vigorous debate about what has changed in the American past—and what hasn’t.

Today’s social movements are grappling once again with a central challenge for the New Left: how to remedy injustice while maintaining vitality and independence from the political system.