Roundup Top 10!
Why this year's Black History Month is pivotalby Peniel JosephIn 2019, slavery's aftermath hovers over contemporary American race relations in deep and profoundly disturbing ways. |
The ‘Loyal Slave’ Photo That Explains the Northam Scandalby Kevin M. LevinThe governor’s yearbook picture, like many images before it, reinforces the belief that blacks are content in their oppression. |
Will Harvard continue to fail Asian Americans — or will it learn from the past?by Renee Tajima-PeñaHarvard does not have an Asian American studies program. |
When the Catholic Church’s prohibition on scandal helped womenby Sara McDougallBut why has scandal been systematically silenced in the church for so long? One answer lies in the medieval church's doctrine on scandal. |
The Dark History of Anti-Gay Innuendoby James KirchickThe accusation that Lindsay Graham is susceptible to blackmail is historically groundless, predicated upon the same flawed assumption most people held about gays at the height of the Cold War: that they would commit treason in order to avoid being outed. |
Democrats are invoking FDR in their Green New Deal. It’s historically misleading.by Charles LanePolitically powerful as the invocation of America’s great collective deeds under Franklin D. Roosevelt might be, however, it is historically misleading — deeply so. |
The Democrats’ dilemma: two parties in oneby Niall FergusonIn their eagerness to recruit a new generation of young voters, the Democrats have — not for the first time in their history — admitted a faction of radical ideologues into their midst. |
What the Paris Peace Conference can teach us about politics todayby Anand Menon, Margaret MacMillan, Patrick Quinton-BrownMany of the challenges that concern us today—ethnic nationalisms, building the foundations for peace and prosperity around the globe, managing and containing war, or the future of Europe—were discussed in Paris a hundred years ago. |
America’s Original Identity Politicsby Sarah ChurchwellThe good news for anyone feeling perturbed is that it simply isn’t true that identity politics represents the end of America or of liberal democracy. |
Trump’s Trail of Fearsby Jamelle BouieThe president, channeling his hero Andrew Jackson, continues to champion a particularly virulent form of reactionary white majoritarianism. |
Eugene V. Debs and the Endurance of Socialismby Jill LeporeHalf man, half myth, Debs turned a radical creed into a deeply American one. |