Middle class neighborhood with sold home sign

Our Segregation Problem

The consequences of racial separation are significant for left political organizing aimed at building a multiracial working-class majority.
Cover of "The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution" by Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath.

American Social Democracy and Its Imperial Roots

This post is part of a symposium on “The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution,” a new book by Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath.
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The Long History of Anti-CRT Politics

The history of anti-racial justice rhetoric.
The National Archive rotunda, Washington, D.C.

Why Americans Worship the Constitution

The veneration of the Constitution is directly connected to America’s emergence as global hegemon.
"We the People"; US Constitution

It Would Be Great if the United States Were Actually a Democracy

The pervasive mythmaking about the supposed wisdom of the founders has covered up a central truth: the US Constitution is an antidemocratic mess.
Book cover for The Two Faces of American Freedom

The Two Faces of American Freedom, Ten Years Later: Part One

On the ten year anniversary of Aziz Rana's book, Henry Brooks interviews him on his influential book and what it might teach us about the legacies of populism.

Goodbye, Cold War

For the first time, we are living in a truly post-cold-war political environment in the United States.
Martin Luther King Jr. speaking into news microphones.

Against National Security Citizenship

By connecting liberation at home with an end to U.S. militarism abroad, today's black activists are picking up where MLK left off.

Race and the American Creed

Recovering black radicalism.
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Universalizing Settler Liberty

America is best understood not as the first post-colonial republic, but as an expansionist nation built on slavery and native expropriation.