Vanita Gupta and Kristen Clarke are eminently qualified for senior positions in the Justice Department. So why are Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton painting these two nonwhite women as radicals?

Recent works inspired by his fiction struggle to reckon with his racist fantasies.

The essays in “Bland Fanatics” trace today’s crises to a long history of violent colonial oppression.

Moving beyond the Moses Complex

How could someone so telegenic, so witty, and skilled in politics have missed out on higher office?

Equality of opportunity is important, too, but it’s not enough to fix the vast economic disparities in America today.

A new book frames this country’s tendency toward state-sanctioned murder as a unique cultural inheritance.

The next big American conversation about race should take place in a union hall.

How to fix a country that was already cracking up before Trump came along

A.I. research scientist Timnit Gebru raised red flags about Google’s most exciting new tech. She says she was forced out for it.

Reassessing the legacies of past black organizing

Amid the pandemic, a recent documentary about Native American food culture asks audiences to reexamine the origins of this strange holiday.

In her new book, the poet decided to ask white people about their whiteness.

Conservatives are trying to rally support for the Supreme Court nominee by baiting Democrats into attacking her Catholic beliefs.

After 50 years of living in rural obscurity, the now-legendary electronic musician has a message for the young.

“The Cosby Show,” “#blackAF,” and the misleading fixation on the “racial wealth gap”

Corporate America’s pledges to make C-suites less white and male don’t mean much for workers. But it keeps coming back to the idea, anyway.

How mass protests against racist police brutality sparked a historic federal crackdown on dissent

In Portsmouth, Virginia, cops have been systematically using their state power to tyrannize political enemies.

The president sees suburban America as a bastion of white affluence—an outdated view that could cost him the election.