The saga of the Klamath provokes a more fundamental, yet often ignored, set of questions: What is a river for? Irrigation?

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February 29, 2016 The Firebrand and the First Lady: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice Patricia Bell-Scott Alfred A. Knopf, $30 (cloth) During her long and ...

Two theories paint very different pictures of the sources of our democratic dysfunction. The debate won’t be settled by accusations of political convenience.

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, ...

The World of Edward Said His milieu was one of global, and specifically Palestinian, anticolonial struggle.

Neither Chaos Nor Quest: Toward a Nonnarrative Medicine Narrative medicine claims to champion the experience of patients—but it does so by requiring that the sick “earn” their care by telling a ...

The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people.

Critics of the 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate within the field of U.S. history over the antislavery implications of the American Revolution.

What’s Wrong with Technological Fixes? Evgeny Morozov answers questions about his new book, To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism.

The Long American Counter-Revolution 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.