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No Human Being Is Illegal with Mae Ngai

Posted March 27, 2018

Many Americans take the existence of so-called "illegal immigrants" for granted, whatever their opinion of the matter. But illegality isn't a property...

Real Sanctuary Means Ending Mass Policing with Kade Crockford

Posted March 25, 2018

Perhaps nothing has more defined the monstrosity of Donald Trump than his racist demonization and targeting of immigrants from Mexico, Muslim-majority...

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Posted March 21, 2018

Tommie Shelby and Brandon M. Terry talk about their new book To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King,...

Lamb Is Not Enough. Three Leftist Women Run in Pennsylvania

Posted March 17, 2018

Democrat Conor Lamb's victory is a stunning rebuke of Republicans. But Lamb is far from an ideal candidate, and so the race also raises a...

West Virginia and Labor after Janus with Sarah Jaffe and Gabriel Winant

Posted March 13, 2018

In West Virginia, a focal point of Trump-era liberal armchair ethnography, teachers have won a historic statewide strike just as the Supreme...