We should not at all underestimate the pressure and the constraints, the harassments and surveillance which go on and have ...

If the Ayotzinapa case goes unpunished, there will never be a commitment from the state to resolve the broader issue.

Instead of pouring public funds into private industry—as the United States did with COVID-19 vaccines—we must build public capacity and prioritize public objectives. Amy Kapczynski, Christopher Morten ...

March 01, 2007. The American left is now waking up to the fact that it slumbered while a historic opportunity to aid the poor passed it by. When Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and ...

How Did We Fare on COVID-19? To restore public trust and prepare for the next pandemic, we need a reckoning with the U.S. experience—what worked, and what didn’t. If the Ayotzinapa case goes ...

When Tom Hayden started working on the Port Huron Statement, he had already been beaten in Mississippi, protested at the Democratic National Convention, met Robert Kennedy, interviewed Martin Luther ...

August 16, 2021. The United States has never been “a nation of immigrants.” It has always been a settler state with a core of descendants from the original colonial settlers, that is, primarily ...

May 22, 2025. Abundance Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson Avid Reader Press, $30 (cloth) In their new book, Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that American liberals have ironically succumbed ...

April 13, 2023. This essay appears in print in Is Equal Opportunity Enough?.. In June 2020 Donald Trump tweeted, in characteristically hyperbolic style, that his administration had “done more for the ...

July 22, 2020. When James Baldwin visited San Francisco in 1963 to film a documentary about U.S. racism, he encountered neighborhoods in turmoil: the city was seizing properties through eminent domain ...

Cox’s book refuted the “caste school” of race relations. For nearly a decade, Cox had challenged scholars who compared U.S. race relations to the caste system in India—caste being a religious-social ...