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An illustration of broken and bloody pieces representing awareness of Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls.

Traumatic Monologues

On the therapeutic turn in Indigenous politics.
by Melanie K. Yazzie via The Baffler on September 6, 2021
Collage of women's rights symbolism. Woman outline waving flag.

Who Lost the Sex Wars?

Fissures in the feminist movement should not be buried as signs of failure but worked through as opportunities for insight.
by Amia Srinivasan via The New Yorker on September 3, 2021
Illustration parody of Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Gay Things Are

Gay marriage was a victory, we’re told—but a victory for what?
by Yasmin Nair via Current Affairs on August 12, 2021
Statue of Liberty, her face in shadow.

The United States Is Not “a Nation of Immigrants”

Celebrations of multiculturalism obscure the country’s settler colonial history—and the role that immigrants play in perpetuating it.
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz via Boston Review on August 12, 2021
Cover of TIME magazine featuring a redacted textbook and the title "The History Wars"

Inside the Fight Over What Kids Learn About America's History

The debate over how to teach the history of race in the U.S. is entangling local school boards and engulfing national politics.
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on July 16, 2021
Man holding poster at U.S. Capitol Riot

The Paranoid Style: Rereading Richard Hofstadter in the Aftermath of January 6

How a book of essays from 1964 explains what happened at the Capitol.
by Bennett Parten via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 13, 2021
Four stars with different designs

How America Fractured Into Four Parts

People in the United States no longer agree on the nation’s purpose, values, history, or meaning. Is reconciliation possible?
by George Packer via The Atlantic on June 8, 2021
class politics graphic of voters facing off

The Politics of a Second Gilded Age

Mass inequality in the Gilded Age thrived on identity-based partisanship, helping extinguish the fires of class rage. In 2021, we’re headed down the same path.
by Matthew Karp via Jacobin on February 17, 2021
Headshot of Angie Maxwell.

Political Scientist Angie Maxwell on Countering the 'Long Southern Strategy'

For decades, the Republican Party has used what's known as "the Southern Strategy" to win white support in the region.
by Angie Maxwell, Benjamin Barber via Facing South on January 22, 2021

The Wages of Whiteness

One idea inherited from 1960s radicalism is that of “white privilege,” a protean concept invoked to explain wealth, political power, and even cognition.
by Hari Kunzru via New York Review of Books on September 3, 2020
An illustration of Barbara Smith.

Until Black Women Are Free, None of Us Will Be Free

Barbara Smith and the Black feminist visionaries of the Combahee River Collective.
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via The New Yorker on July 20, 2020

The Republican Choice

How a party spent decades making itself white.
by Clare Malone via FiveThirtyEight on June 24, 2020

The Yiddishist Neocon

Nancy Sinkoff discusses her new biography of Lucy S. Dawidowicz, a Holocaust historian whose role in the neoconservative movement is often forgotten.
by Nancy Sinkoff, Hadas Binyamini via Jewish Currents on April 23, 2020
Samuel Francis

The Outsider

Who was behind the "Trumpist manifesto" released twenty years before Trump became president?
by Matthew Rose via First Things on September 16, 2019

The Gay, Black Civil Rights Hero Opposed to Affirmative Action

How would Bayard Rustin be judged today?
by Coleman Hughes, Taige Jensen via New York Times Op-Docs on February 28, 2019

Reading in an Age of Catastrophe

A review of George Hutchinson's "Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s."
by Edward Mendelson via New York Review of Books on February 25, 2019

The Racist Politics of the English Language

How we went from “racist” to “racially tinged.”
by Lawrence B. Glickman via Boston Review on November 20, 2018
Jill Lepore

'The Academy Is Largely Itself Responsible for Its Own Peril'

On writing the story of America, the rise and fall of the fact, and how women’s intellectual authority is undermined.
by Jill Lepore, Evan Goldstein via The Chronicle of Higher Education on November 13, 2018

Populist Persuasions

The promise and perils of left populism.
by Joe Lowndes via The Baffler on October 31, 2018

Is Elizabeth Warren Native American?

What the DNA controversy reveals about race, identity politics, and the Native American present.
by Claire Bond Potter via Public Seminar on October 17, 2018

Making Philly a Blue-Collar City

Sports, politics, and civic identity in modern Philadelphia.
by Timothy Lombardo via Sport in American History on September 6, 2018
Francis Fukuyama

Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History

The political scientist argues that the desire of identity groups for recognition is a key threat to liberalism.
by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on September 3, 2018
Trump greeting supporters.

White Tribe Rising

What accounts for white tribalism?
by James McWilliams via The Hedgehog Review on June 21, 2018
Billy Graham at the pulpit.

American Evangelicalism and the Politics of Whiteness

If white evangelicals are united by anything, it isn't theology.
by Seth Dowland via The Christian Century on June 19, 2018

Identity Politics Can Make or Break the Democratic Party

Racial justice energized the party in the past. It can today too.
by Eric Schickler via Vox on April 16, 2018

The Party of Hubert Humphrey

The Democratic leader believed that the ordinary American was open to a message of collective responsibility and common purpose.
by James Traub via The Atlantic on April 7, 2018

Agriculture Wars

On country music as a lens through which to trace the corporatization of American farming.
by Nick Murray via Viewpoint Magazine on March 12, 2018

This, Our Second Nadir

Why the Trump Era demands a better understanding of how racism got us into this mess.
by N. D. B. Connolly via Boston Review on February 21, 2018
Girls in Appalachia in 1935.

The Invention of the 'White Working Class'

A spate of new books explores the composition and motivations of the demographic that has been credited with electing Trump.
by Andrew J. Perrin via Public Books on January 30, 2018
Whites at a Trump campaign rally.

Does the White Working Class Really Vote Against Its Own Interests?

Trump has revived an age-old debate about why some people choose race over class—and how far they will go to protect the system.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on December 31, 2017
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