Madison Grant

“We’re the virus.” So read a tweet in March praising reports of less pollution in countries under COVID-19 lockdown. By mid-April, it had nearly 300,000 likes.

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

Three new books consider the life, and impact, of Franz Boas, the "father of American cultural anthropology."

The founder of cultural anthropology, Franz Boas challenged the reigning notions of race and culture.

The assault rifle has enabled racists to act alone.

The radical and reactionary currents of New York at the turn of the 20th century.

In 1911, the Dillingham Commission set a half-century precedent for screening out 'undesirable' newcomers.

When he promised to put America first in his inaugural speech, Donald Trump drew on a slogan with a long and sinister history.

Policies meant to whiten America almost always backfire.

By ending DACA, President Trump seems to be trying to resurrect a national immigration policy defined by racial engineering.

Did Robert Moses ordered engineers to build the Southern State Parkway’s bridges extra-low, to prevent poor people in buses from them? The truth is complex.

The U.S. is neither a land of nativists nor a haven for immigrants. Since the founding, the truth has lain somewhere in between.

We are again caught between nationalists longing for an imagined past, and activists invoking ideals the nation has not attained.