A conversation with Colin Kaepernick on Black studies, white supremacy, and capitalism

Our grid is a mess. Its formation could teach us how to fix it.

A new history should show how closely civilization and the environment are linked—and urge us to respond to today’s crisis.

Outbreaks of disease may have had a greater effect on the course of events than the actions and plans of humans.

“The Wager” is a story of resentment, insurrection, and a battle over the truth. Sound familiar?

Richard Nixon, the original culture warrior, helped establish Earth Day and poured millions of dollars into conservation, despite his own ambivalence about the environmental movement.

Carter’s austerity was part of a bigger project. It didn’t really have much to do with environmentalism.

Critical race theory fearmongering is working its way into every level of education.

The Foreign Policy Association tried to get ordinary people involved in foreign affairs. Why did they fail?

Two new books ask us to shift our attention away from the white vigilantes of Jim Crow and instead focus on what it meant for the survivors.

While current produce rationing in the U.K. is more likely the result of poor planning, rationing in general has a rich and positive history. It could point the way to a fairer future.

Was the nineteenth-century Midwest “the most advanced democratic society that the world had seen”?

Unlike accounts that focus on the travails of European settlers, Pekka Hämäläinen’s new book tells a 10,000-year story of Native cultures, politics, and resistance.

The argument that corporations have historically been a force for good—and can be again—is wishful thinking.

The novelist China Miéville aims to show that Marx’s words remain just as vital as when they were first hastily composed.

A new book traces the long history of cloaking racism in the language of resistance to an overbearing federal government.

The German river, subjected to a massive nineteenth-century engineering project that facilitated coal transport, now needs engineers to intervene again due to global warming.

Lucy Sante’s new book uncovers the story of New York’s pursuit of water, and the homes and communities destroyed in the process.

China in the 1980s contemplated a more liberal future—then wrote those debates out of its history.

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown just how hard it is for Americans to grieve.