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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?

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

While Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro denies that a serious public health crisis is underway, a small municipality an hour up the coast from Rio de Janeiro has instituted a remarkable and effective ...

Over the past fifteen years of observing tech development, I’ve found that terms I once used like “cyber-utopianism,” “Internet-centrism,” and “techno-solutionism” fail to fully capture Big Tech’s ...

This essay is featured in our Winter 2025 issue, Trump’s Return. The lineup at Donald Trump’s second inaugural was a veritable billionaire’s row, with the heaviest hitters of Big Tech out in full ...

Black Arts poet Sonia Sanchez discusses the ancestral influences on her work and how art can give us strength.

Queer Shoulders at the Wheel John Wieners was one of the most important gay poets of his generation.