Excerpts

An interview with the author of "The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism."

How market fundamentalists convinced Americans to loathe government.

Police K-9 units in the United States emerged during the Civil Rights era. This was not a coincidence.

The paper’s anti-trans coverage parallels its failings over gay rights and AIDS. But the Times appears determined not to learn from its own history.

Leftists have regarded Lincoln as a pro-labor hero who helped vanquish chattel slavery. We should celebrate him today within the radical democratic tradition.

How should a republic honor its leaders?

One-hundred years ago, the U.S. government waged a deliberate and organized campaign against South-Asian Americans.

Emma Goldman’s opposition to the American government poses an interesting question for our modern democracy: is there room for radical dissent?

A century of battles over a neighborhood pool reveal a complicated picture, about who matters, and who gets the chance to live well in a segregated city.

Ash derided women’s liberation as “that foolishness” – but her success story is very feminist.

The genre is the product of migration, rebirth, and the struggle to be heard.

Hip-hop DJ culture provides a rich site for exploring how culture and industry can converge and collaborate, as well as how they need each other to move forward.

Ken Burns’s "The U.S. and the Holocaust" distorts the historical record in service of a political message.

Lost wars, especially when defeat comes as a rude surprise, inevitably spark painful self-examination.

In 1947, the United States sacrificed for the sake of a starving Europe.

Thoreau-themed goods, designed for mindfulness, are the marketplace’s remedies for a problem which, according to Thoreau, was created by the marketplace itself.

A new book calls white evangelicals to reckon with the fact that the groundwork for their movement was laid, in part, by J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI.

Decades before the recent police violence in Memphis, a brutally beaten Latino man was tossed by officers into a Houston bayou and drowned.

The year 2023 marks the centennial of many iconic L.A. landmarks, including the Hollywood sign, Memorial Coliseum, Biltmore Hotel and the Angelus Temple.

Medical schools in the antebellum U.S. were critical in the formation of a medical community that shared ideas about racial science.

Much of what's happening in American race relations traces back to 1966, the year the Black Panthers were formed.

Enslaved conspirators in far-flung Accomack County forced some whites to rethink any legislative efforts aiding Black Virginians.

How the Senate has become a bastion of Republican minority rule.

Palm oil is in everything, but it is also enmeshed in global supply chains that rely on brutal working conditions and the destruction of the planet.

Conservatives have long refused to accept that America’s past is complicated.

Benjamin Prine's descendants didn’t know about their family ties – or their connection to his enslaver.

We may never know with absolute certainty that the Great Fire was an accident, but Grim certainly made it harder for anyone to argue otherwise.

The role of family in Huey P. Newton's educational journey.

The confluence of Black modernity, self-determinism, and belongingness of Harlem's housing.

Sesame Street's most famous origin story centers on a 1966 dinner party. But the program was actually the culmination of a career that began much earlier.

The West is using the wrong analogy for Russia’s invasion—and worsening the outcome.

A sweeping new history weaves personal, intellectual, and spiritual narratives into a book that reminds us of the potential of the socialist movement.

He fell from favor after the disaster of the Iraq War. But he was always biding his time.

During the cold war, football’s violence became precisely its point.

In this case, freaking out makes even less sense because spy balloons are historically a sign of weakness.

Covert U.S. intrusions into Chinese airspace were common for decades.

China’s balloon, whatever its purpose, became a physical and observable reminder of the often-invisible work nations do to keep tabs on one another.

Stephen Casper, a medical historian, argues that the danger of C.T.E. used to be widely acknowledged. How did we unlearn what we once knew?

How Bernardo de Galvez turned the tide against British supremacy on the continent.

Texas’s elite police force has long played the hero in film and television, although the reality is far more complex.

The story of David Ross Locke's travels to Western Europe.

The march toward revolution in America coincided with a smallpox epidemic. True freedom now meant freedom from disease as well.

The historical record reveals the real circumstances that led to the improbable capture of eleven British ships.

Lillian Gilbreth, who died just over fifty years ago, saw that the worker could not be understood as a cog in the machine.

How was the famous prisoner uprising and its aftermath depicted in the prison press? The American Prison Newspapers collection on JSTOR has answers.

The result has been reactionary, often racist intellectual defenses of inequality.

Keaton had been on the stage longest, risen the highest, fallen the furthest, and left the most indelible legacy.

A fatal combination of fear, power, and hubris.

Always a dealmaker, then-senator LBJ negotiated with segregationists to pass a bill that cautiously advanced racial equality.

The NFL's control over entertainment.