The British Marxist historian E. J. Hobsbawm called it The Age of Revolution. It began in 1789, ran until 1848, and witnessed revolutions in industry, ...

Where is today’s public discussion on how much the U.S. economy will have to pay to rebuild an even vaster military-industrial complex to restock the missiles that Trump has used up? I’m not sure that ...

Xavier Becerra recently told Californians that we need to think about the future of humanity. He said it with conviction. He said it with urgency. He said ...

In the early hours of April 30, 2026, Israeli forces committed an act of piracy in international waters off the coast of Crete — more than 1,000 ...

I’m currently working from the roof of the Austin Public Library, or at least I was working until I got distracted and started writing this instead. And ...

It’s great that wealthy Democratic Party celebrities like Bette Midler and Bruce Springsteen dislike the deranged fascist ...

The Common Root of Our Multiple Crises The world is confronted by a boggling array of crises, testing the limits of human comprehension, let alone hope.

Darkology, written by Princeton historian Rhae Lynn Barnes, is a comprehensive, jaw-dropping survey of the grotesqueries known as minstrelsy and blackface. The book explodes the comforting notion that ...

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them.  You can crush them by ignoring them.  By refusing to think, refusing to change.  And that's precisely what ...

Everything this nation once stood for is being turned on its head. We are being asked—no, told—to believe that the greatest threat to America today is not ...

One of the few guarantees in life is loss. The unmerciful realities of temporal existence and entropy make the pain of separation a sole constancy. Over the course of an average life, a person will ...

Donald Trump as an individual will not define American politics forever. But MAGA may outlast him. Trump has had a transformative influence in the United States and beyond. The question is whether ...