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Shulamith Firestone’s portraits of madness reveal a condition afflicting us all.

Guerrero’s case for the superiority of lottocracy thus appears to hinge on the ability of random selection to eliminate the kind of capture that is intrinsic to elections themselves. This sort of ...

This week marks eight decades since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, devastating the two cities, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, and ...

This past April, the FBI made an admission that was nothing short of catastrophic for the field of forensic science. In an unprecedented display of repentance, the Bureau announced that, for years, ...

The United States has never been “a nation of immigrants.” It has always been a settler state with a core of descendants from the original colonial settlers, that is, primarily Anglo-Saxons, Scots, ...

While his authoritarian response to a season of Black Lives Matter protests has brought renewed attention to Trump’s racist politics, his investment in global white supremacy is long-standing and was ...

The historical connections between the climate crisis and our present systems of injustice help explain why a just future depends on reparations. Before the rise of global racial empire, different ...

May 04, 2021 Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula Laleh Khalili Verso, $29.95 (cloth) Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World ...

The Case for Abolishing Elections They may seem the cornerstone of democracy, but in reality they do little to promote it.

Said’s influence was profound, but he was not alone: a multitude of emigres, exiles, and migrants from Africa and Asia carried the pillars of anticolonialism across the world.

The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people.