Learning from Our Teachers: The Education Strikes of 2018
An analysis of the success of teachers’ strikes shows how the left can win.
"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins
An analysis of the success of teachers’ strikes shows how the left can win.
Adam SzetelaMay 23, 2019
Dexter Fergie reviews Megan Black’s “The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power.”
Dexter FergieMay 21, 2019
A harrowing book about refugees in Australian detention reveals much about the national character.
Eleanor DaveyMay 18, 2019
One of the strangest and most contentious borders in US history is the watery one with Haiti.
Allison CoffeltMay 14, 2019
Mark Garrett Cooper and John Marx review John Thelin’s “Going to College in the Sixties.”
John Marx, Mark Garrett CooperMay 13, 2019
Robert Caro is still asking questions, and asking his readers to do the same.
John SchneiderMay 13, 2019
Two new books trace the chilling story of the Chernobyl reactor.
Bathsheba DemuthMay 12, 2019
Ariel Saramandi chronicles the rise of the Mauritian alt-right.
Ariel SaramandiMay 11, 2019
“Genesis 2.0” is a panoramic master class in the strange unmodernity of modern science.
James DelbourgoMay 10, 2019
A new history of Reconstruction traces the roots of American “respectability” politics, and reveals an argument conducted largely through artwork.
Robert D. BlandMay 10, 2019
Mohammed Fatih Mohammed considers the legacy of Khider Kosari, the “poet laureate of Kurdish jihad.”
Mohammed Fatih MohammedMay 8, 2019
Debra Utacia Krol reviews Dina Gilio-Whitaker's "As Long as Grass Grows."
Debra Utacia KrolMay 7, 2019