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South Carolina has always been a battleground of larger, national campaigns for racial justice.
Fall 2025
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The Outside-Inside Game
A dialogue between two veteran immigrant rights advocates who have watched the movement grow, diversify, and sometimes contradict itself over the past three decades.
Fit for Citizenship? A Photo Essay
Even as America defined itself as a “nation of immigrants,” it sought a more perfect union by engineering the masses at its gateway.
Dangling Man
“What is man?” In his ambitious new book, Mark Greif assures us this is a valid question that we shouldn’t be ashamed to ask.
Chinese Labor Divided
China’s recent uptick in labor unrest has given leftists hope that the world’s largest working class is building a labor movement to match its scale. But Chinese workers are still far from having a national voice.
Tyranny of Democracy
In 1861 Abraham Lincoln, in his first inaugural address, gave a legalistic account of why he must leave slavery untouched. By 1865 he was an impassioned evangelist for freedom. What prompted his dramatic transformation?
Close Encounters
How can widespread inequality progress alongside widespread concern about its ill effects?
Growth vs. the Climate
It would be nice to hear it straight for once. Stopping climate change means giving up on growth.
Why Feminism Needs Punk
Taking a cue from punk icon Viv Albertine, today’s feminists should dare to want more—and forget about asking for it nicely.
The Presidential Empire
Whichever way Congress might vote on the NSA, the steady creep of our executive branch is unlikely to be reversed.
Postcards from Empire
At the height of colonialism, indentured Indian women in the Caribbean were photographed for a thriving postcard industry. Their images enact a struggle—between the imaginations of colonial-era photographers and the real lives of the women behind the portraits.
Classroom Saints and Fiends
Dana Goldstein’s The Teacher Wars shows that the failed ideas underlying today’s ed-reform crusade are as old as public education itself.
Organizing the Unorganizable
Worker centers have empowered nurses, nannies, busboys, taxi drivers, and many other low-wage immigrants long thought to be “unorganizable.” They provide clues to the future of organized labor—but can their victories scale up?
Liberal Punishment
Naomi Murakawa’s remarkable book The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America shows how, since the 1940s, liberals have provided legitimacy for the prison state.
Is HSBC the World’s Most Honest Bank?
Does your money cross borders as easily as you do? That’s a question that HSBC, “the world’s local bank,” posed to would-be clients in a slogan that appeared on posters around the world a few years ago. The prompt accompanied a photograph of smiling Asian cyclists before the University of Cambridge. “When life takes you or your family across borders, your money should seamlessly follow,” reads the caption. “You’re at home abroad. Now the same can be said for your money.”
