Malcolm Harris is a writer based in Philadelphia and the author of Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials.
Nishnaabeg scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson explains why "green growth" isn't enough to save the planet.
Brooks depends on a lazy and ignorant story about tribalism to bolster a specific myth about American exceptionalism.
American school-lunch policy has always been at the mercy of broader ideological trends, from patriotic militarism to corporate neoliberalism.
While establishment pundits fret over civility, the antifascist movement in America is working for peace.
The technology has its roots in 1950s Soviet Russia.
Although inventing the bra was barely an adolescent pit stop on Mary Phelps Jacobs' glamorous trajectory, it did suggest what she would get up to next.
Ruth Graves Wakefield, the woman who invented the chocolate chip cookie, was something closer to the Martha Stewart of her day.
What a scholar of the KKK has to say about the alt-right.
Boats were, in fact, a proposed alternative solution.
Centrists scream "impeachment" and turn to the FBI—but they're too afraid to turn to the people.
Egalitarian movements won't work if we keep putting the onus on the non-conforming.
Capitalism was supposed to create enough wealth to make jobs obsolete. Unfortunately, we're moving in the opposite direction.
As fascists have snuck their jackboot into the curved door of the Oval Office, the radical struggle against them is reaching the mainstream.
Is there a bubble? Should we be worried about defaults? Your questions, answered.
Experience and fully developed frontal lobes aren't what we're going to need to resist Trump.
The racial hierarchy of American industry was built on the ruins of slavery. A new book on the history of black workers shows how far we have—and haven't—come.
In her new book, Elaine Frantz Parsons re-traces the origins of the 19th-century KKK, which began as a social club before swiftly moving to murder.
In 'The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry,' Ned and Constance Sublette offer a radical re-interpretation of American history. It’s brutal and uncompromising, and, for better or worse, it’s how we should understand the country.