Cornel West on Martin Luther King, Jr., hope, and the future of activism.

America loves pitting Black intellectuals against each other, but today's activists need both Coates and West.

You are keeping no one safe, except for your donors, trustees, and the university’s endowment.

Among them are Kimberlé Crenshaw, Angela Davis, bell hooks, and Robin D. G. Kelley. You can read them here.

Our understanding of Malcolm X is inextricably linked to his autobiography, but newly discovered materials force us to reexamine his legacy. 

The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.

Few democracies require children to make a daily declaration of fealty to country.

"Never again" means standing up for Palestinian people. "Never again" means this very moment.

Cornel West on Martin Luther King, Jr., hope, and the future of activism.

2018 could be called the year of the witch. From the proliferation of magic crystal shops in Brooklyn and Los Angeles to witchy fashions on the spring

Among them are Kimberlé Crenshaw, Angela Davis, bell hooks, and Robin D. G. Kelley. You can read them here.

Among them are Kimberlé Crenshaw, Angela Davis, bell hooks, and Robin D. G. Kelley. You can read them here.

Rev. William J. Barber II on civil disobedience, the failures of electoral campaigns, and why the South is key to a political transformation of the country.

Robin D. G. Kelley and Bongani Madondo honor the writer's life, work, and legacy.

A critique that anticipated the political currents of contemporary America.

Imagining a more just society.

The Marxist-environmental historian Mike Davis has produced a rich corpus critical of capitalism.

The ethics of David Foster Wallace.

Two books unmask the colossal shipping industry behind global trade.

States are exerting greater control over capital. In the face of climate change, it may be too little, too late.

Wajahat Ali speaks with Pankaj Mishra on the devastating consequences of Western imperialism, globalization, and capitalism and the fate of liberal democracy.

Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

Counterterrorism largely ensnares people of color.

The problem isn't new; it's the bordered logic of global apartheid itself.

States are exerting greater control over capital. In the face of climate change, it may be too little, too late.

Silvia Federici interviewed by Jill Richards.

Black women go missing—from civil rights history and from our lives.

A century of failed liberal attempts at policing reform in Minneapolis supports the view that none of the city council’s current proposals will prevent there from being another George Floyd.

2018 could be called the year of the witch. From the proliferation of magic crystal shops in Brooklyn and Los Angeles to witchy fashions on the spring

When Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated, James Baldwin made a final attempt to reconcile the generational divide between the civil rights movement and Black Power.

In her scholarship, mentoring, and activism, Farah Jasmine Griffin brings a praxis of radical love to an unequal academy.

Founded a century ago, the Chinese Communist Party has repeatedly defied predictions of its demise.

Pro-Trump support remains driven by relatively well-off whites in fast-growing, diversifying suburbs—not by economic despair in rural America.

How we went from “racist” to “racially tinged.”

Hannah Arendt’s unfinished book on Marx offers a timely philosophical dialogue for our era of economic precarity.

The beauty of the language should not keep us from reckoning with its history.