violence

“You know how many second basemen or shortstops I knocked on their ass in my career?”

Until both American and Mexican police forces stop treating it like a war, the violence of drug prohibition won't stop.

For 400 years, Americans have argued that their violence is justified while the violence of others constitutes barbarism.

On history, race, and guns in America.

Law and protest in Durham, North Carolina.

Mark Rudd says a lot has changed in half a century, but not the reason college kids paralyze a campus.

The turbulent history of an often forgotten moment that would leave blood in the streets and shape the modern landscape of Chicago.

Remembering the river helps me forget, at least for a moment, the challenges, fears, and feelings of inadequacy I experienced in my childhood.

Like his predecessor, the president is decrying anti-Arab and Muslim hatred while helping fuel it. People are refusing to let him get away with this hypocrisy.

On how Europe’s interwar period informs the present.

Bruce Kuklick traces the meaning of the term “fascist” from its origins to the present day and how it has, over the years, gradually lost its coherence.

And how those with few resources at their disposal found ways to navigate and negotiate even the direst of situations.

How Kahanism infiltrated the political mainstream.

John Brown and the Secret Six—the abolitionists who funded the raid on Harpers Ferry—confronted a question as old as America: When is violence justified?

A recent biography of Vince McMahon presents him as an entertainment tycoon who changed culture and politics. The real story is as banal as it is brutal.

Blaming corrupt individuals rather than federal Indian policy for the violence and exploitation perpetrated against the Osage Nation misses the mark.

To address these atrocities and treat Jewish victims, survivors, and families with dignity, we must confront Israel’s subjugation of Palestine.

Who were the Molly Maguires, what did they do, and why did they do it?

The comparison between last weekend's Hamas attack and 9/11 is apt.

When it comes to the left, the state uses RICO to criminalize radicals as thieves and separate them from a broader base of support.