Will the Creative Class Go MAGA? Will the Creative Class Go MAGA?
It may be hard to resist the lure of power and patronage.
May 13, 2025 / D.D. Guttenplan
The Jim Crow Origins of National Police Week The Jim Crow Origins of National Police Week
Police brutality and corruption are painful realities. So are officers who die honorably performing their duty. But the memorial in Washington fails to distinguish between them.
May 9, 2025 / Elizabeth Robeson
Trump Is Taking a Wrecking Ball to Indigenous Education Trump Is Taking a Wrecking Ball to Indigenous Education
After mass layoffs and scholarship freezes, students and tribal leaders are suing the Trump administration for violating treaty obligations.
May 7, 2025 / StudentNation / Connor Arakaki
Cruelty Is the Point Cruelty Is the Point
Trump’s deportations and defundings = death.
May 6, 2025 / OppArt / Anonymous (NYC)
Opposing Mass Deportation: What We Can Learn From the Resistance to Japanese Internment Opposing Mass Deportation: What We Can Learn From the Resistance to Japanese Internment
When the US imprisoned Japanese-Americans during WWII, public solidarity and community defense were how people supported the interned. Their strategies remain relevant today.
May 2, 2025 / Julia Piaskowski
We Overcame Jim Crow by Confronting Injustice. We Can Do it Again. We Overcame Jim Crow by Confronting Injustice. We Can Do it Again.
Those billy clubs striking my body strengthened my mind and convinced me that we could overcome segregation. We did so then, and we can overcome Trump’s America today.
May 1, 2025 / Douglas H. White
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
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
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
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