In 1943, Ansel Adams traveled to the base of the Sierra Nevada to photograph Manzanar—one of the ten internment camps that together detained 120,000 Japanese Americans during the Second World War.
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[EVENT | December 16] Belabored Live: The Great Resignation
Join us on Thursday, December 16 for a live episode of Belabored.
How the Hart–Celler Act Changed America
The 1960s effort to end discriminatory quotas sowed the seeds of the political conflicts over immigration that are still with us today.
Brazil Turns on Bolsonaro
As the 2022 campaign nears, many of the myths that made Bolsonaro appealing have been washed away by the grim realization of what he has always been: a huckster, most notable for his abrasiveness and authoritarian posturing.
Belabored: Supply Chain Chaos, with Charmaine Chua
A discussion on global shipping, just-in-time manufacturing, and why fixing the supply chain means rethinking endless growth.
Vaccine Nationalism
The world’s richest countries have undermined the international cooperation we need to end this pandemic.
Know Your Enemy: Return of the National Conservatives
The second National Conservatism conference showed that the ideology has moved into the mainstream of the American right.
Was the Long March a Dead End? An Exchange on Radicals and the University
In the 1960s, young radicals saw the university as an ideal site for agitating and organizing. What changed?
Chevron’s Intimidation Campaign
The oil company hopes that the imprisonment of Steven Donziger has a chilling effect on environmental litigation. But it might have galvanized a new generation to take on the fossil fuel industry.
The Politics of Protection
In The Great Recoil, Paolo Gerbaudo argues that the left needs to speak to people’s fears and connect them to hope.
Permission to Imagine
A new collection of Stuart Hall’s writing offers a guide to the limits of representation in building anti-racist politics.
Why Do We Call the Police?
An interview with Derecka Purnell, the author of Becoming Abolitionists, about what makes communities unsafe—and how she went from calling 911 to fighting for abolition.
Hope for Labor at the End of History
Amid the bleak political landscape of Clinton’s America, a 1996 summit of union organizers and intellectuals proved a surprise success. It also showed the weakness of left ideas without a strong labor movement.
