We are indeed going to have to live with each other, barring apocalyptic violence—but we already have been for quite some ...

I learned my name was on the list from a Jewish colleague at my university, a woman I hardly know. “I need to tell you ...

More than a century before Zohran Mamdani declared he wanted a New York City network of grocery stores “focused on keeping ...

The Trump administration has unfrozen a Biden-era hold on powerful Israeli-made spyware, now in the hands of U.S. Immigration ...

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“The personal is the political” was a reality for me long before it became the mantra of Second Wave feminism in the United States. In 1951, when I was ten years old, my father, Samuel Wallach, a New ...

Aaron Shakow is a Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard. A longtime member of Partners In Health and former advisor to the World Health Organization, he is coeditor of Privilege and ...

2023 marks one hundred years since the founding of the Institute for Social Research. Better known today as the Frankfurt School, the Institute’s theorists—among them Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, ...

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 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 Black Community ...

U.S. history is a strange, exceptional field of play where, to paraphrase Garrison Keillor’s famous sign-off from Lake Wobegon, all the revolutions are strong, all the revolutionaries are kind, and ...