Government highway agencies have enabled the blatant falsification of traffic model results. As a result, the United States ...

Destructive displays of technological prowess in Lebanon serve to distract the Israeli public from the military’s failure to ...

A more capacious suburban politics—beyond the myth of the white, affluent enclave—is fundamental to addressing the problems ...

Labor Day was the first national holiday that a social movement both created and persuaded the state and businesses to honor. Michael Kazin ▪ August 30, 2024 A lithograph of the 1882 Labor Day ...

At the end of last year, a friend and I sat down to watch the 2002 Hugh Grant vehicle About a Boy. Grant’s character is kind of a loser, one who does nothing all day but live off the royalties of a ...

Duke University Press, 2022, 296 pp. Tahir Hamut Izgil’s recent memoir, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night, brings to life a cast of poets and intellectuals who used to meet under the cover of darkness, ...

When James C. Scott died earlier this summer at the age of eighty-seven, tributes to the scholar poured in from a bewildering variety of sources. Like members of a fractious clan rushing to the family ...

Developing countries face collapsing international trade, falling remittances, sharp reversals of capital flows, and currency depreciation. Only bold policies—debt relief, international financing, ...

It’s easy to come up with plans for remaking society. It’s much harder to work alongside ordinary people to build coalitions that can change the rules of the game.

There are Civil War buffs who read and reread the chronicles of that immensely important time. There are labor buffs and I am one—for whom Antietam was never as searing as Harlan County, which is ...

Building working-class power through full employment is a worthy goal, but there are better strategies for creating and sustaining a tight labor market. Fred Block ▪ Fall 2024 CIO Political ...

We propose the banning of all cars from Manhattan Island, except buses, small taxis, vehicles for essential services (doctor, police, sanitation, vans, etc.), and the trucking used in light industry.