Nikhil Pal Singh

Are alarmist narratives about a “new civil war” obscuring the real battle in US politics: the fight for democracy?

If colorblindness rests on the claim that the civil rights movement changed everything, the idea that racism is in our DNA borders on a fatalistic proposition that it changed nothing.

Bourne’s affinity with outsiders drove his vision of making North America a united states of communities. His writings have become more relevant than ever.

Decades of militarization in U.S. foreign policy have fueled violence at every level of American society.

More than simple racism, the destructive premise at the core of the American settler narrative is that freedom is built upon violent elimination.

The Cold War says more about how U.S. elites imagined their “freedom” than it does about enabling other people to be free.

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