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

For a century, critics of all political stripes have challenged the role of science in society. Repairing distrust today requires confronting those arguments head on.

In the 1970s, a group of feminists collaborating under the banner Wages for Housework (including Selma James, Silvia Federici, and Mariarosa Dalla Costa) came up with a remarkably precise dictum to ...

Why We Shouldn’t Compare Transracial to Transgender Identity Unlike gender inequality, racial inequality primarily accumulates across generations. Transracial identification undermines collective ...

The pandemic increased demand and possibilities for automating care, but doing so may deliver racist stereotypes and unemployment for women of color.

In the mid-twentieth century, city governments, backed by federal money, demolished hundreds of Black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal.

May 04, 2021 Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula Laleh Khalili Verso, $29.95 (cloth) Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World ...

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

On violence and the possibility of solidarities in America.

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

The government—not the market—is the only viable solution to some of our greatest challenges.