Andrzej Duda’s re-election has been characterized as yet another victory for the global populist right, and a rejection of neoliberalism. But it is important to understand recent developments in the context of Poland’s post-1989 transformation.
No group is better positioned than organized teachers to force Washington to develop a national plan to deal with the pandemic.
Capitalism and racism overlap sometimes, as they do today in the United States. But the overlap is circumstantial, not necessary.
Conservative state governments are rolling back local public health initiatives, intentionally putting their citizens in harm’s way.
Black people suffer disproportionately from police violence. But white skin does not provide immunity.
The COVID-19 crisis has given autocrats an excuse to expand and deepen their power—while making the spread of the pandemic worse.
The occupation sought to challenge the priorities of a city government that would choose to cut funding for guidance counselors, park workers, teachers, and other social services while continuing to spend billions on cops.
The controversy over buildings, statues, and awards honoring racists has finally reached the baseball establishment.
In a moment when Black Lives Matter has succeeded in bringing longstanding police abuses to public attention, Lewis’s legacy has never been more visible.
For younger Portuguese people, who have watched Americans take to the streets in support of Black Lives Matter, protesting police brutality feels overdue.
Across the country, state governments are passing legislation that grants companies immunity from any liability for their failure to protect workers during the pandemic.
As a new national security law is introduced, we can neither ignore the violence happening right in front of us nor diminish the new struggles that lie beyond.
From a solitary cell in Texas, Kwaneta Yatrice Harris writes letters documenting the torturous conditions, despite the risk of retribution.
Darrick Hamilton and Jesse A. Myerson discuss the pandemic, the uprisings, and the future through the lens of stratification economics.
“We are certain that had Kościuszko been resurrected, he would himself write Black Lives Matter in big bold letters across his statue.”
