The United States government has been cheating Black farmers since the false promise of 40 acres and a mule. But leave it to the Trump administration to make things even worse.

Democrats once preached college-for-all, and were too soft on school privatization. They need to reverse course on both these positions—and make an unapologetic case for education as a public good that benefits all kids.

What a liberal county attorney’s fight against Montana’s attorney general says about the future of the MAGA agenda—and what resistance looks like in red states.

And how we can steal it back.

Why does the prospect of a female president just seem to get further and further away?

The global economy depends on the U.S. dollar, even when the U.S. acts erratically.

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is gently eerie and filled with longing.

As a student, Emily Eakin was fascinated by Derrida, Foucault, and their peers but found them incompatible with the real world. Did she give up too soon?

As a new biography makes clear, A People’s History of the United States arose from a life of deep and admirable commitment, but it has many gaps.

The Trump clan finds a new place to ruin.

In his new book The God Test, Robert Wright proposes that humanity is facing both a singular opportunity and an epochal threat.

AMC’s TV adaptation of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles is an all-consuming spectacle.

The administration has given a regulatory green light to miners, oil drillers, and Trump himself.

Both shows tell the truth about what it means to grow up in an often inhospitable world.

The hottest resistance talking aheads during Trump 2.0 are academics. What happened?

The founding document has been fought over since it was written. Today, we can let Trump claim it, or we can take up its battle cry to “alter or to abolish” what’s destroying our country.

Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s radical parents were committed to fighting injustice. But what did they owe their young son?

As bad as things are, they’re going to get a lot worse in 2030, thanks in part to the Supreme Court’s Callais decision. Here’s how to fight back.