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Will Democrats Learn from the Establishment’s Loss? The David Hogg affair, Zohran Mamdani’s win, and the future of the Democratic coalition.
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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 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, ...
This past April, the FBI made an admission that was nothing short of catastrophic for the field of forensic science. In an unprecedented display of repentance, the Bureau announced that, for years, ...
What happens next and how to take things seriously are difficulties these texts have something to tell us about—something we need, still, to learn. This account of these three notoriously difficult ...
May 04, 2021 Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula Laleh Khalili Verso, $29.95 (cloth) Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World ...
The historical connections between the climate crisis and our present systems of injustice help explain why a just future depends on reparations. Before the rise of global racial empire, different ...
Who’s to Blame for Mass Incarceration? Michael Javen Fortner’s Black Silent Majority makes the controversial case that African Americans backed the Rockefeller Drug Laws.
To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity.