George Floyd protests

How immigration enforcement and policing became entwined

We are at the end of an era, as choices made in the 1970s have created a society that seems unable to cope with a crisis such as that posed by the coronavirus.

Modern policing is linked to overseas colonial projects of conquest, occupation, and rule. Demilitarization requires uprooting that worldview.

They understood that revolution means dismantling old power structures, violently if necessary.

Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.

Despite our long history of interrogating the memorial landscape, no movement has been able to dislodge it.

A series of graphs that help explain why at least 830 monuments were erected many decades after the end of the Civil War.

Is being "political" the central force in our identities?

The shameful career of Roger Sherman, mild-mannered Yankee.

Police reform is a time-honored counter-insurgency measure to quell rebellion.

Hamilton is an impossibly slippery text. The arguments over the show are part of what make it great.

A whole vision of history seems to be leaving the stage.

The parallels between the summer of '32 and what is happening now are striking.

Like the museum behind it, the monument was designed in large part to train white people in a fundamentally racist way of seeing.

GOP-led state legislatures have not only prevented voters from exercising their rights as citizens, they have usurped local control to remove monuments legally.

How calls for “real reforms” have resulted in measures that further shield police from real accountability.

Generations of Asian Americans have struggled to prove an Americanness that should not need to be proven.

Nearly a century later, both ‘Head of Christ’ and criticism of its role in enshrining Jesus as white endure.

Masks have a history associated with disease, status, gender norms, and more.

In 1932, the “Bonus Army” of jobless veterans staged a protest in Washington, DC. The government dispersed them with tear gas.

Last week, the mayor announced that the city’s most prominent statue of Christopher Columbus would be removed “as soon as possible.”

Where does Edith Wharton's idea of innocence fall into our own world?

Anger over policing and inequality boiled over more than 50 years ago, and a landmark report warned that it could happen again.

Rap group N.W.A. understood vulgarity and controversy were necessary to draw attention to police brutality.

The holiday is a reminder of the Civil War's larger meaning, the unfulfilled promise of Reconstruction, and the reinforcement of democratic values.

A celebration of emancipation in Texas is taking hold in the minds of Americans everywhere.

How allies abroad help the fight against racism at home.

The restrictions imposed during recent racial justice protests have their roots in efforts to “contain” Black Americans. 

Using one’s buying power to support causes one believes in and to effect change is not new.

But today’s activism reflects longstanding commitments to freedom.