Ross Perlin is co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance. His latest book is Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York. Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor’s ...

China's younger generation of feminists pose a unique threat to the Communist Party. By celebrating single, queer, and often child-free women, they are challenging government edicts that marriage and ...

Planetary ecosystems are presently in a dire state. For decades, capitalism has proposed to hold the solutions: in new forms of property rights, new kinds of markets, new representations of concrete ...

Lynn Adelman Fall 2017 The United States Supreme Court (Jmbgolfer / Wikimedia Commons) It is a little-known and disturbing fact that the Supreme Court is in the process of gutting what may be the most ...

Robert Greene November 10, 2017 Harold Cruse, Stokely Carmichael, and Martin Luther King, Jr. all offered acute diagnoses of the backlash to civil rights legislation The problem of white backlash in ...

From mental healthcare to internet access, the unequal experience of learning during the pandemic reminds us of the important role institutions like universities and governments can—and must—play in ...

For the first several decades of its existence, Israel’s democratic deficit could be brushed off as circumstantial. The Jewish state, the story went, lived in a violent neighborhood and had to deal ...

Jared Anthony Loggins Fall 2022 A photograph taken by civil rights marchers on the way from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, of a billboard depicting Martin Luther King Jr. at the Highlander Folk School ...

Given the excessive focus on King in studies of Black politics, it is refreshing that Rogers mentions the civil rights leader only occasionally and instead turns to less studied, and often more ...

In April’s presidential election, Macron’s trump card was opposition to the far right. Even voters on the left who had been disgusted by the president’s massaging of conservative sympathies, his ...

Though America, América features as large a cast of characters as one would expect from a work of history that aspires to synthesize the development of an entire hemisphere over the course of half a ...

Editors June 4, 2025 As major climate disasters increase in frequency across the country, homeowners and renters are faced with new dilemmas about how to protect themselves and their communities. How ...