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.

In the year of the great composer’s 250th birthday, we can retune our ears to pick up the subversive and passionately democratic nature of his music.

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 ...

The government of Guam has appointed a Commission on Decolonization, but U.S. control means that all of the island’s options, including the status quo, have substantial downsides.

Patrick Iber: Let’s start where AOC started a few days after the election. On Instagram, she asked people who had voted both for her and for Donald Trump to explain themselves. The answers were ...

Patrick Iber April 7, 2020 Carolyn Forché at Georgetown University in April 2018 (Wikimedia Commons) Booked is a series of interviews about new books. For this edition, Patrick Iber spoke with Carolyn ...

In one sense, Kinkade got lucky. He started working in the 1980s, as the modern Christian right took shape and sought to flex its muscles. We had always had our own colleges and radio stations and ...

Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the “taxpayer” has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on democracy.

It is not just the economic climate in which our colleges and universities find themselves that determines what they charge and how they operate; it is their increasing corporatization.

Nicholas Mulder's account of the modern economic sanctions regime sheds new light on an era of extreme destabilization and destruction.