Race relations

Unending Struggle

By Thomas Chatterton Williams,

In 1974, a pair of scientists who would go on to win the Nobel Prize published a paper demonstrating that the chlorofluorocarbons used in aerosol sprays and refrigerators were harming…

History As End

By Matthew Karp,

1619, 1776, and the politics of the past

The Lightning Farm

By Caroline Lester,

The death penalty under Trump and the execution of Dustin Higgs

The Umpire Strikes Back

From remarks made by U.S. judges in 2019, which appeared in the Winter 2020 issue of the Judicial Conduct Reporter, published by the National Center for State Courts. These remarks…

You Say You Want a Revolution

By Kevin Baker,

Morality is often reduced to choices, and imperfect choices at that. This is the human condition; to accept it and do the best we can is a brave thing, and…

On Defense

By Sergio De La Pava,

Twenty-five years of fighting mass incarceration in court

Color Theory

By Frank B. Wilderson III,

From Afropessimism, which will be published this month by Liveright. In February 2001, I attended the Race Rave conference at the University of California, Santa Cruz, with my wife, Alice.…

No Joe!

By Andrew Cockburn,

Joe Biden’s disastrous legislative legacy

We Were So Happy Then

By Lynn Freed,

Life in the new South Africa

Visits from the Goon Squad

From behaviors of Little Rock, Arkansas, police, cited by the department since 2007. The internal reports were made public in October, following an investigation of the killing of Bobby Moore,…

The Gatekeepers

By Harper’s Magazine, on December 20, 2018

Unknown knowns: the limits of racial discourse in a system almost exclusively controlled by white people

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