The new TV series on FX trades in the brutal simplicity and narrative economy of the Alien​ franchise ​for something rangier and looser.

The right has swept into school boards and made bigoted policy the norm. Fighting back may be easier than it looks.

They’re both quacks—but only one of them is in charge of the nation’s health care policy. Can you tell them apart?

He has produced a crisis much like the one the colonists faced two and a half centuries ago. Now it’s our responsibility to uphold the Founders’ legacy.

Educators can fight back against Trump’s attacks by re-embracing “old-fashioned” disciplines and ideas.

The administration is using the tools of the state to influence—even poison—how America’s racial history will be taught in our public forums and schools.

The attempts by his administration to control the ways Americans engage with our nation’s history threaten to weaken patriotism, not strengthen it.

It is the task of historians to grapple with Trump’s favorite concept—and to redefine it.

It’s a way to combat Trump’s attempts at remaking the past to justify erasing protections for the most vulnerable.

It’s not “divisive” to teach about division. It’s divisive to bury it.

The biggest problem with the history Trump wants to impose on us is that it never, in fact, existed.

Autocrats do not merely fade away; they have to be countered and stopped.

We must mobilize now to defend our profession, not only with research and teaching but in the realm of politics and public persuasion.

Global collaboration is necessary for success, if not survival, in our hyper-connected world.

Daniela Catrileo explores Indigenous identity and the rural-urban divide from an intimate, feminist perspective in her newly translated novel, Chilco.

They’re not on MSNBC—they’re streaming on YouTube and Twitch.

Journalist Rebecca Grant shifts the abortion conversation away from laws and morals to focus on access: getting people the care they seek.

A roving history makes the case for shade’s centrality to public health, climate adaptation, and even a more robust and inclusive public sphere.

The press acts as if “higher education” = Harvard. But a more interesting and gutsier stand is being taken in the heartland by schools that have a lot more going for them than football.