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

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 ...

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 World of Edward Said His milieu was one of global, and specifically Palestinian, anticolonial struggle.

May 04, 2021 Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula Laleh Khalili Verso, $29.95 (cloth) Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World ...

Neither Chaos Nor Quest: Toward a Nonnarrative Medicine Narrative medicine claims to champion the experience of patients—but it does so by requiring that the sick “earn” their care by telling a ...

The pandemic increased demand and possibilities for automating care, but doing so may deliver racist stereotypes and unemployment for women of color.

May 07, 2020 In an April 2020 op-ed for the Washington Post, recent Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang argues that Asian Americans ought to “ step up ” and visibly support relief efforts in ...

What happens next and how to take things seriously are difficulties these texts have something to tell us about—something we need, still, to learn. This account of these three notoriously difficult ...

The Case for Abolishing Elections They may seem the cornerstone of democracy, but in reality they do little to promote it. There’s a far better way to empower ordinary citizens: democracy by lottery.

How Not to Tell the History of Science Two recent books force us to rethink what knowledge is, where it is located, and how it moves.