By: Nigel Roberts 493664570-republican-presidential-candidate-donald-trump-speaks Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on Oct. 21 in Burlington, Iowa. While whipping up racial controversy, Donald Trump shocked many…
By Jason Hickel If you follow international news you will be accustomed to headlines announcing that world leaders have succeeded in cutting global poverty in half over the past couple…

By: Michael Harriot A migrant from Syria holds one of his children in a holding area after arriving at a rail station in Munich, Germany, and being detained by police Aug….
By Jason Hickel If you follow international news you will be accustomed to headlines announcing that world leaders have succeeded in cutting global poverty in half over the past couple of decades….
By Drew Gilpin Faust faust_1-121715.jpg Peter Foley/epa/CorbisBill Clinton and John Hope Franklin discussing race relations in America at the New York Public Library, October 2005 The historian John Hope…
By John Nichols Muslim_American_Flag_rtr_img Samr Ebrahim with his granddaughter Zrahaa Mohammed at a park in Dearborn, Michigan, April 9, 2003. (Reuters / Rebecca Cook) Followers of Islam have lived…
By Jeet Heer Just a year a so ago, the phrase “identity politics” had a musty and arcane air to it, redolent as it was of early 1990s campus battles…
By Nick Turse Leaders pose for a photo around US Army Gen. David Rodriguez (front, center), US Army Africa Command commander, June 26, 2013, during Exercise Western Accord 2013 in…
By Libero Della Piana Libero Della Piana As a first-year student at Brown University, twenty-five years ago, I was detained by campus security for trespassing. In my own dorm….
By Laila Lalami Flowers are put in a window shattered by a bullet as Paris mourns the victims of a terrorist attack. (Photo: AP/Peter Dejong) What happened in Paris on…
Denis Balibouse / Reuters By Conor Friedersdorf As the terrorist attack against Paris unfolded Friday, a moment that Americans experienced in the strange semi-togetherness of social media, something prompted the…
By Christina Cauterucci Students staged a sit-in outside the president’s office in Healy Hall at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. At the University of Missouri, students have ousted their president…