The Candlelight Revolution sprang from a collective determination to act against a system in which only the wealthy and connected appear to advance. South Korea has a significantly higher level of ...

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 ...

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 ...

What started as a philosophy promulgated by black elites to “uplift the race” by correcting the “bad” traits of the black poor has evolved into one of the hallmarks of black politics in the age of ...

Melinda Cooper March 18, 2025 Donald Trump awards the National Medal of Freedom to former attorney general Edwin Meese on October 8, 2019. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Just a few months in, any ...

Simon Brown August 20, 2021 Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan, Republican National Chairman Bill Brock, and GOP vice presidential nominee George Bush at the RNC in 1980 (Bettman/Getty ...

Jedediah Britton-Purdy July 3, 2018 The Delhi Faridabad Skyway, India, 2011 (Tahir Hashmi / Flickr) This essay forms the first part of an exchange that originally took place at the Sovereignty, ...

Called together by the Charleston Chamber of Commerce and the Charleston Board of Trade, the Tax-Payers’ Convention of South Carolina met in Columbia in May 1871 and again in February 1874 to seek, ...

History Won’t Do Our Work for Us From Gramsci’s political and strategic thinking comes a set of ideas that arguably have only grown more salient with time. Among them: That revolutionary change will ...

Wilfred Chan: What just happened in the district council elections? Avery Ng: This is a landslide victory for the pro-democracy camp. We mobilized in force, and a lot of first-time and younger voters ...

Patrick Iber is co-editor of Dissent. Tressie McMillan Cottom is a research professor at UNC-Chapel Hill’s iSchool, a MacArthur Fellow, and a New York Times contributing opinion writer. She is a ...

William P. Jones is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota and author of The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights (2013) Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is ...