For Robert Jay Lifton, treating veterans’ trauma was an antiwar tool. How did PTSD, the diagnosis he helped create, come to accommodate state violence?

Will Democrats Learn from the Establishment’s Loss? The David Hogg affair, Zohran Mamdani’s win, and the future of the Democratic coalition.

David S. Busch is the author of Disciplining Democracy: How the Modern American University Transformed Student Activism.

On July 1, Donald Trump and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem joined Ron DeSantis to open a new immigration detention center near Everglades National Park in Florida. “Alligator Alcatraz,” as ...

Robin Marie Averbeck, a historian and activist, teaches at California State University, Chico. She is author of Liberalism Is Not Enough: Race and Poverty in Postwar Critical Thought.

The best guarantee on the professionalism, honesty, and effectiveness of its delivery is to let international journalists ...

The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people.

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 Anglo-Saxons, Scots, ...

In the 1970s, a group of feminists collaborating under the banner Wages for Housework (including Selma James, Silvia Federici, and Mariarosa Dalla Costa) came up with a remarkably precise dictum to ...

The Last Gay Liberationist The death of Charley Shively marks the end of an era, but his revolutionary ideas for a just society resonate now more than ever.

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 ...