Even when there were figures who almost fit that role—like Thurgood Marshall or Ruth Bader Ginsburg—they couldn’t keep ...

An interview with Osita Nwanevu, author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.

Matt and Sam talk with Daniel Martinez HoSang about the gains the GOP and Trump are making with racial minorities.

Melvin L. Rogers July 31, 2015 Ta-Nehisi Coates speaking in January (Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Univ. of Michigan) Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me often seems like a ...

Most leftists have no difficulty opposing Hindu nationalists, zealous Buddhist monks, and the messianic Zionists of the settler movement. Why won't they take a firm stance against Islamists?

By working outside structures of power one may circumvent coercive systems but not necessarily subvert them. Localizing politics—stripping it of its larger institutional ambitions—has its advantages, ...

Eugene McCarraher Fall 2014 Ugolino di Nerio, The Way to Calvary, c. 1325 Culture and the Death of God by Terry Eagleton Yale University Press, 2014, 248 pp. God has been through a very rough patch ...

An interview with Clara E. Mattei, the author of The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism.

In Resource Radicals, Thea Riofrancos explores how conflicts between left movements and the left government in Ecuador produced a militant critique of the extractive model of development.