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Robin Marie Averbeck, a historian and activist, teaches at California State University, Chico. She is author of Liberalism Is Not Enough: Race and Poverty in Postwar Critical Thought.

The best guarantee on the professionalism, honesty, and effectiveness of its delivery is to let international journalists ...

The saga of the Klamath provokes a more fundamental, yet often ignored, set of questions: What is a river for? Irrigation?

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, ...

In the mid-twentieth century, city governments, backed by federal money, demolished hundreds of Black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal.

The Long American Counter-Revolution Historian Gerald Horne has developed a grand theory of U.S. history as a series of devastating backlashes to progress—right down to the present day.

April 13, 2023 This essay appears in print in Is Equal Opportunity Enough?. In June 2020 Donald Trump tweeted, in characteristically hyperbolic style, that his administration had “done more for the ...

More important, even the most generous attempts to protect the political and socioeconomic rights of individuals leave some duties of individuals to their own states and all humanity out of account, ...

While Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro denies that a serious public health crisis is underway, a small municipality an hour up the coast from Rio de Janeiro has instituted a remarkable and effective ...

The wealthy and powerful will take every opportunity to hijack activist energies for their own ends.

Two theories paint very different pictures of the sources of our democratic dysfunction. The debate won’t be settled by accusations of political convenience.