The Changing Same of U.S. History
Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution Gordon S. WoodOxford University Press, $24.95 (cloth)The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America Carol AndersonBloomsbury,...
View ArticleProbation Profiteering Is the New Debtors’ Prison
The carceral system has become a vast debt machine. It creates a dizzying array of financial obligations for those unfortunate enough to be caught in its dragnet. The lowest hanging fruits are the...
View ArticleWho Owns Our Data?
Published almost a century ago, Upton Sinclair’s novel Oil! offered readers a vivid panorama of speculators’ scramble to acquire western lands and then dig for petroleum at all costs. Sinclair’s...
View ArticleCyberespionage with Benefits
This summer a coalition of seventeen media organizations published a series of articles indicting the NSO Group, an Israeli cyberespionage company.
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Is Poised to Put Politics Ahead of Gun-Violence Prevention
Not long ago, common-sense gun reform seemed ascendant.If the Supreme Court decides against New York, anyone who wants to carry a gun in public would be allowed to do so.
View ArticleGuantánamo’s Other History
When photos of mounted U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents chasing down Haitians in Del Rio, Texas, emerged last month, the public outcry was immediate. In the most iconic of the images...
View ArticleAbortion Is a Public Good
“Texas has compelling interests from the outset of a woman’s pregnancy in protecting the health of the woman and the life of the unborn child,” reads SB8, the state’s near total abortion ban, which...
View ArticleThe Captive Photograph
In March 2019 Tamara Lanier filed a lawsuit against Harvard University and Peabody Museum for “wrongful seizure, possession and expropriation of photographic images” of her enslaved ancestors, Renty...
View ArticleWhose Suffering Matters?
Afghanis walk inside a fenced corridor as they enter Pakistan in Chaman on August 25, 2021, following the Taliban's military takeover of Afghanistan. Image: AFP via Getty Images
View ArticlePleasure and Justice
Citadels of Pride: Sexual Abuse, Accountability, and Reconciliation Martha C. NussbaumW. W. Norton, $27.95 (cloth)The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century Amia SrinivasanFarrar, Straus...
View ArticleBeyond Choice
Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood Michele GoodwinCambridge University Press, $29.95 (cloth)
View ArticleThe Hidden Stakes of the Infrastructure Wars
Since its announcement in March, President Joe Biden’s $2.2 trillion American Jobs Plan has fueled a loud and repetitive debate over which public investments qualify as infrastructure. The White House...
View ArticleKeep Pride Nude
This June, a month marked globally as LGBT Pride Month, an online debate has reignited over the question of whether (partial) nudity, fetish wear, and kinky activity ought to have a place in Pride...
View ArticleThe United States Can Afford More Refugees
In an attempt to bring national unity, the Biden-Harris Administration has thus far proceeded cautiously in their approach to refugee policy. Primarily focusing on the resettlement cap, they initially...
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