Why We Need Good Police
Even after a massive redistribution of resources, there will remain a need for an agency with the authority to investigate, restrain, and detain those who insist upon criminally victimizing their neighbors.
Spring 2025
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A New Model of Public Safety
Tight-knit communities where residents have access to basic resources and strong local institutions are safer places to live.
A Consistent Approach to Policing
We have written so much about the police in recent months but said too little about what we really want and expect from them.
For a Liberal Socialism
Today’s novel New Deal coalition offers the only plausible chance for progressive reforms.
The Problem of Police Nationalism
Police nationalism is rooted in conservative ideas of law and order, but it has also been sustained by decades of liberal police reform.
The Political Economy of Racial Inequality
The material causes of racial inequality can be overcome only with massive economic distribution.
A Unified Story for a Divided World
Wars of position that pit race against class are tired.
Majority-Minority Myths
It’s time to let go of the belief that changing demographics will bring about a progressive America.
The Disease Map of Rural America
In the hardest-hit rural communities, the collective immune system was already fatally compromised. They were deep into a decades-old crisis when the pandemic arrived.
The Private Life of Empire
In her new memoir, Hazel Carby uses her family’s history to uncover the intimate side of the British Empire. Reckoning with its legacies will be the only way to move beyond them.
Beyond the Backlash
How the 2016 election revealed the possibilities for new political identities.
How Real Estate Segregated America
Real-estate interests have long wielded an outsized influence over national housing policy—to the detriment of African Americans.
So Much Winning
“I first notice it a few weeks after the election. The swastika has been spray-painted onto the curb kitty-corner from my parents’ house…”
A short story.
Edifices of Empire
Capitalism, from its very beginning, was twinned with racism. Two books describe how these two forces emerged together, at the same moment in the unfolding of Western political economy.
Cashing in on Despair
Profiteering is distorting the response to the opioid epidemic as much as it shaped its origin.
