Segregation’s Long Shadow
What is remarkable in Ferguson is not just the way segregation has been sustained, but the way it maps so cleanly onto patterns of economic disadvantage.
Winter 2025
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Ten Points Towards a Two-State Solution
A secure, well-run Palestinian state is more essential than ever, for the sake of justice and for the security of both sides.
Sectarian Entrepreneurs: How the U.S. Broke Iraq
The current U.S. intervention in Iraq serves as a stark reminder of the colossal policy failures that have plagued the country since 2003.
From Freedom Summer to Black August
Why civil rights activists should champion a little-known prisoner holiday
Between Israel and Social Democracy: Tony Judt’s Jewishness
Beyond Zionism and its discontents, Tony Judt’s Jewishness was a vibrant companion of the historian’s aspiring cosmopolitanism.
The Central American Child Refugee Crisis: Made in U.S.A.
The United States has had a long history of supporting repressive governments in Central America, fueling the violence that has caused tens of thousands of children to flee.
Unite Queer
Out in the Union, a new book by Miriam Frank, shows that unions have been crucial to the growth and success of the modern LGBT rights movement.
Hurling the Little Streets Against the Great: Marshall Berman’s Perennial Modernism
For Marshall Berman, the street was not just the site where modernism was enacted; it was modernism incarnate.
Should We Abolish the CIA?
It is time to ask how we can end our pathological dependence on the ineffective and swollen agency.
Why Tokyo Is Burning
There were large demonstrations this week in Tokyo in response to the government’s move to reinterpret Article Nine of Japan’s Constitution, in which “the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation.” The prominent support Shinzō Abe’s forceful tactics enjoy among American officials raises questions about who he sees as his key political audience.
Occupy Central: The Migrant Workers in Democracy’s Blind Spot
Hong Kongers have never been quite comfortable discussing the 300,000 migrant domestic workers, most of whom are female, to which the city currently plays host. Complicating the discussion further is the media’s tendency to steer such discussions from issues of fair wages and workplace safety toward the still more vexing question of citizenship.
Baltimore Since Beth Steel: Hopkins Hospital Workers Fight for 15
With Johns Hopkins ranking as Baltimore’s largest private employer, the hospital workers’ struggle holds tremendous implications for the future of the Baltimore economy—and countless other struggling postindustrial cities.
Subsidizing Inequality: New York City’s Crooked Development Agenda
For far too long, New York City development projects have heavily subsidized corporations and big banks at the expense of small businesses and low-wage workers. Will Bill de Blasio do anything to change that?
The Souls of Black Teachers: Reading José Luis Vilson with W. E. B. Du Bois
The schools of New York are now more segregated than at any point in the state’s history, and are the most segregated schools in the nation. New York City math teacher José Luis Vilson’s This Is Not A Test is a powerful account of how today’s resegregation holds back students of color—and how black and Latino teachers can fight back.
Rock Against Racism
Rock-and-roll fans tend to see the rock culture of the 1950s and ‘60s as both a reinvention of American popular music and a force for self-expression and liberal culture. Two new books show what this account leaves out: rock and roll’s frontal assault on American racism.
