Ross Perlin is co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance. His latest book is Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York. Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor’s ...

Public Housing: Tenants and Troubles Mike Miller and Carl Werthman Summer 1961 By June 30, 1960, the New York City Housing Authority had become the country’s largest landlord, housing some 567,000 ...

On the Upper Floor website, there’s a map showing the location of each webcam, and I choose one to watch. Dining Room 1, Slave Quarters, the Parlor, the Lounge. It’s a little like a text-based online ...

Something like the admonition to stay in one’s lane lay behind the protests that arose when Dana Schutz’s portrait of Emmett Till in his casket was displayed in an exhibit at the Whitney Museum in ...

Rafael Khachaturian March 23, 2022 Anti-vaxxers rally at the Lincoln Memorial January 23, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Published in 2015, Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos was a ...

Rafael Khachaturian: People are becoming increasingly aware of the biased nature of the U.S. criminal justice system, but they are probably less aware of how criminal justice practices strip resources ...

Lyra Walsh Fuchs April 20, 2020 Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Bedford, New York (Google Earth) At Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for women, the third floor of Building 5, which used to ...

At this point we need to ask whether the growing militancy of the Republican right can be adequately explained by the triumph of small over big business, as Tea Partiers and Trump himself would have ...

Peter Dreier May 24, 2011 Bob Dylan turns seventy today. The following essay is adapted from The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame, which Nation Books will ...

Nationalists are people who put the interests of their own nation first. Liberal nationalists are people who do that and who, at the same time, recognize the right of other people to do that. And then ...

Alex Press October 22, 2019 Members of the Chicago Teachers Union and SEIU Local 73 march in Chicago in October (SEIU Local 73) “Professional-managerial class” (PMC), a term coined by Barbara and John ...

The workers are part of China’s “floating population” of 200 million migrants, at the bottom of what Taiwanese tech entrepreneur Stan Shih calls “the smiling curve.” Controlling the upturned edges of ...