Even when there were figures who almost fit that role—like Thurgood Marshall or Ruth Bader Ginsburg—they couldn’t keep ...

Matt and Sam talk with Daniel Martinez HoSang about the gains the GOP and Trump are making with racial minorities.

An interview with Osita Nwanevu, author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.

Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here ...

In the year of the great composer’s 250th birthday, we can retune our ears to pick up the subversive and passionately democratic nature of his music.

Nicholas Mulder's account of the modern economic sanctions regime sheds new light on an era of extreme destabilization and destruction.

An interview with Michael Walzer on The Struggle for a Decent Politics.

T.H. Marshall’s “Citizenship and Social Class” Mitchell Cohen Fall 2010 An old conservative-minded contention goes something like this: if you start with an egalitarian ethos, you will bottom out at ...

The government of Guam has appointed a Commission on Decolonization, but U.S. control means that all of the island’s options, including the status quo, have substantial downsides.

Far from being anti-environment, the gilets jaunes have exposed the greenwashing of Macron’s deeply regressive economic and social agenda.

In one sense, Kinkade got lucky. He started working in the 1980s, as the modern Christian right took shape and sought to flex its muscles. We had always had our own colleges and radio stations and ...