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

Inside Project 2025 Backed by the Heritage Foundation, the initiative seeks to undermine longstanding safeguards against abuses of executive power.

A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we must aim at more than restoring its mythical former splendor.

What Turned Poor White Counties Red? Arlie Russell Hochschild blames an emotional blindness to facts, erasing the Democrats’ deep failings.

Over the past fifteen years of observing tech development, I’ve found that terms I once used like “cyber-utopianism,” “Internet-centrism,” and “techno-solutionism” fail to fully capture Big Tech’s ...

I grew up on the short story “Toba Tek Singh,” an Urdu satire on the Partition. While the story’s protagonist is a Sikh man, for whom the story is named, the character that stuck with me most was an ...

Published in our Winter 2024 issue Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution Walter Rodney, edited by Asha Rodney, Patricia Rodney, Ben Mabie, and Jesse Benjamin Verso, $26.95 (paper) ...

The Dream Hoarders Focusing on the top 1 percent is a mistake. The real class divide is between the upper middle class—the top 20 percent—and the rest of America.

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 ...

On violence and the possibility of solidarities in America.

The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people.