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Comparisons between Trump's border regime and the Nazi genocide often obscure more than they reveal about white supremacy, past and present.  

David Roediger on the development of Marx's thought on race and gender. Taken from Against the Current 195.

Right-wing Uribe protégé Iván Duque is the next president of Colombia, but the Colombian left also had its most impressive turnout in history.

As the Ortega–Murillo government begins to fall in Nicaragua, three forces are competing for counter-hegemony. 

The author of multiple books, Losurdo focused on uncomfortable political leaders and themes that mainstream thought preferred to banish. 

For China, the suspension of US “war games” alongside South Korea — coupled with talk of reducing troop numbers — offers the prospect of restoring its historical dominance on the Korean peninsula.

Angelo d'Orsi remembers the work of Domenico Losurdo

Domenico Losurdo looks at the foundational link between liberalism and Atlantic slavery, and liberal philosophers' shifting positions on slavery in the period between Somersett v Stewart and the American Civil War.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory as an open critic of the Israeli Occupation may be a new bellwether in American politics.

While the Catholic Church and transphobic feminists alike paint trans activists as propagandists of "gender ideology," trans people have achieved gains in recent years by working not as ideologues, but ethical instructors.

Three historians defend critical history against the disciplinary essentialism and realist epistemologies that permeate the field. 

Óscar Martínez considers why Central American migrants will not stop seeking a way into the trap of the United States.