The place of this riot is the street, the street where Michael Brown was murdered, the street where people gathered to await the news that his killer would not be indicted, the street where people met up afterward. The matching scenes from around the nation convey an uncanny sense of coordination, of organization without an organization.
The tainted origins of modern policing are as a tool of social control. The best solution to bad policing may be an end to policing.
Linda Melvern, author of Intent to Deceive, on the arrest of Felicien Kabuga, one of leaders of the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi.
... and back in print! From Stuart Hall to Ellen Meiksins Wood, stock up on these classic works of theory and politics.
In the face of a future in which only the richest schools thrive, it’s worth asking: what value do these Ivy League schools serve for the rest of society? Barnard student Khadija Hussain reports on the Ivy League-to-finance pipeline.
An interview with Etienne Balibar explores how concept and history drives his thinking of Marx
From New Delhi, Shigraf Zahbi reports on how "the virus" became "the Muslim virus" in less than a week.
Barnaby Raine writes to mark the launch of a new class on Marx and his writing, as part of The Brooklyn Institute summer season
Freya Marshall Payne looks at how communities have been imagined under COVID-19 and what the future of Mutual Aid might be after the virus.
Henry Wallace was attacked and then dismissed because he proposed “a century of the common man and woman.” Almost eighty years of that century have passed since his dismissal, and his fight for the future is largely forgotten.
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