MAGA political energy across the country, and yet the most recent Quinnipiac University poll found that 53 percent of Democrats disapprove of how the Democratic Party is doing in Congress. Senate ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S.S.R’s defectors and escapees had helped shape U.S. definitions of freedom since the onset of the Cold War, but Solzhenitsyn was unique. Born the year after the October Revolution into a ...

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 ...

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 ...