Racism and Discrimination

A Palestinian woman carrying her child in her arms cries in front of a building destroyed in Israel's attack on the Bureij Refugee Camp on September 19, 2024.

‘I Have Watched My People Suffer in Ways That Would Shock the World’ ‘I Have Watched My People Suffer in Ways That Would Shock the World’

Dispatches from Gaza on surviving a year of genocide.

Apr 17, 2025 / Lujayn, Mohammed R. Mhawish, Ahmed Abu Artema, and Hani Almadhoun

Translating the Attack on DEI

Translating the Attack on DEI Translating the Attack on DEI

Trump administration rolls back civil rights.

Apr 15, 2025 / OppArt / Ruben Bolling

“Blues People” and Black Life: A Conversation With Imani Perry

“Blues People” and Black Life: A Conversation With Imani Perry “Blues People” and Black Life: A Conversation With Imani Perry

We spoke with the scholar about Black in Blues, a poetic exploration of the relationship between the color blue and Black people.

Apr 14, 2025 / Q&A / Elias Rodriques

Despite the Harris-Walz campaign’s slogans, 2024 was marked by a precipitous drop in Democratic turnout.

The Democrats’ Lost Millions The Democrats’ Lost Millions

The people who really decided the 2024 election are the ones who didn’t vote at all—and they could hold the key to a Democratic comeback.

Apr 10, 2025 / Feature / Kali Holloway

Old Chapel Lane, Skibbereen, County Cork in 1846.

What Caused the Irish Famine? What Caused the Irish Famine?

A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern era.

Apr 8, 2025 / Books & the Arts / John Banville

The Rebellions of Murray Kempton

The Rebellions of Murray Kempton The Rebellions of Murray Kempton

One of his generation’s most prolific journalists, Kempton never turned a blind eye to the inequalities all around him.

Apr 8, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick

Laura Loomer, a right-wing pundit and supporter of former president Donald Trump, outside the United States Federal Courthouse where Trump is scheduled to be arraigned later in the day on June 13, 2023, in Miami, Florida.

Trump Is Loomering His Own Administration  Trump Is Loomering His Own Administration 

The ongoing internal witch hunt led by the far-right provocateur is a sign of a GOP crack-up.

Apr 7, 2025 / Jeet Heer

Two cutouts of US President Donald Trump and a cutout of White House 'border czar' Tom Homan stand alongside photos of former US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris behind bars at a

Trump Has Created a Legal Nightmare Trump Has Created a Legal Nightmare

The president is using obscure statutes in shocking ways as part of his anti-immigrant witch hunt.

Apr 7, 2025 / Gaby Del Valle

Representative Byron Donalds stands in the crowd as Donald Trump speaks in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, October 19, 2024.

Black MAGA Supporters Have Made Their Peace With Racists Black MAGA Supporters Have Made Their Peace With Racists

The silence of Black MAGA supporters in the face of Trump’s and Vance’s bigotry during the campaign has carried over to the second Trump era.

Apr 2, 2025 / Clarence Lusane

President George W. Bush speaks at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, in 2007.

Trump Is Exploiting the Paranoid Fantasies that Drove the War on Terror Trump Is Exploiting the Paranoid Fantasies that Drove the War on Terror

The antidemocratic policies put in place after 9/11 have come home to roost.

Apr 1, 2025 / Karen J. Greenberg

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