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The saga of the Klamath provokes a more fundamental, yet often ignored, set of questions: What is a river for? Irrigation?

To deliver plentiful housing and clean energy, we have to get the story right about what’s standing in the way.

This essay is featured in our Winter 2025 issue, Trump’s Return. The lineup at Donald Trump’s second inaugural was a veritable billionaire’s row, with the heaviest hitters of Big Tech out in full ...

To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity.

A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we must aim at more than restoring its mythical former splendor.

A new term is needed: Panglossian neoliberalism. Championed by venture capitalists, tech CEOs, and startup founders, this credo asserts that we already live in the best of all possible worlds ...

Marcuse Today Fifty years later, One-Dimensional Man looks more prescient than its author could have imagined.

September 07, 2023 Dear Members of the Board of Governors, West Virginians, and all Americans: We write at a potentially cataclysmic moment for West Virginia University (WVU), where we are professors.

Though historians—of all people—should know better, we sometimes still talk, and write, as if there is a single national audience for popular history.

Fifty years ago, the American Indian Movement occupied the site of a historic massacre. They won real gains in the face of brutal counterinsurgency tactics.

The Dream Hoarders Focusing on the top 1 percent is a mistake. The real class divide is between the upper middle class—the top 20 percent—and the rest of America.