Francis challenged the ethnonationalism of the U.S. Catholic right. With the election of Leo XIV, the battle lines are being ...

Far from safeguarding democracy, America’s system of government helped create this authoritarian moment—and only mass ...

This is the first installment of a new bimonthly column by David Austin Walsh. “A moment of reckoning has arrived for the West.” Invoking the Manhattan Project, Karp and Zamiska want Silicon Valley to ...

When news of the end of the Vietnam War arrived fifty years ago, immortalized in images of U.S. helicopters lifting off from the roofs of Saigon, many who had worked for years to end the carnage ...

Crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protest force a reckoning with inflated definitions of harm and harassment. How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther ...

Atiya Husain is an assistant professor of sociology and American studies at University of Richmond. She is currently working on a book on the FBI most wanted program, race, and terrorism. From drone ...

Elizabeth Frazer is a University Lecturer in Politics and Official Fellow at Oxford University. She is the author of Ideas of Education: Philosophy and Politics from Plato to Dewey. When reading Susan ...

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James Gray Pope Professor of Law and Sidney Reitman Scholar at Rutgers University. Before joining Rutgers in 1986, he worked in a shipyard and represented labor unions at the Boston law firm of Segal, ...

Tobias Hübinette is a Senior Lecturer at Karlstad University. He is a member of the Research Group for Culture Studies (KuFo) and was previously responsible for the Forte-funded Research Network for ...