The Present in History, 2021
November 1, 2021
William K. Tabb is professor emeritus of economics at Queens College and of economics, political science, and sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He has written,… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Americas
Keeping the Challenges Before Us: The Reissuing of ‘Reluctant Reformers’ and Its Contemporary Implications
November 1, 2021
Bill Fletcher Jr. is a longtime trade unionist, writer, commentator, and a past president of TransAfrica Forum. � Robert L. Allen and Chude Pamela Allen, Reluctant Reformers: Racism and Social… READ MORE
The great indifference
November 1, 2021
The West is burning�acre after acre gone to ash.�It’s so hot hundreds die:�does anyone in power care? � The East is waterlogged�and new storms come roaring�months earlier than ever:�does anyone… READ MORE
The Long Haitian Revolution
October 1, 2021
� Pierre Labossiere is cofounder of the Haiti Action Committee and is on the board of the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund. Margaret Prescod is part of the Haiti working group… READ MORE
COVID, Disablement, and the “Return to Normal”
October 1, 2021
Keith Rosenthal is the editor of Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell (Haymarket Books, 2019). Ari Parra is a graduate student of economics at John Jay College, City… READ MORE
Vouchers for Murder
October 1, 2021
Isador Nabi is undoubtedly one of the most mysterious and controversial (some would say notorious) names in science today, whose always provocative papers have appeared in Nature, Science and Nature,… READ MORE
The legacy
October 1, 2021
What a world we’re leaving—�I want to apologize to every�child I see. Yes, we baked it,�poisoned it, gutted it, cooked � up new diseases from tropics,�wet markets, arrogance. How�can they… READ MORE
Herd impunity?
October 1, 2021
What if a colonial settler state accidentally�vaccinated 61% of its population�With a virulent variant of a vicious virus? � What if that virus was a WMD-3-Reich-Redo-2:�Blut und Boden colonial settler… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, September 2021
September 1, 2021
In July 2021, popular protests erupted in Cuba for the first time in a generation, in an event that had the mark of Washington all over it (Helen Yaffe, “What’s… READ MORE
Not a Nation of Immigrants
September 1, 2021
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a historian, activist, and author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (Beacon Press, 2015). This article is adapted from the introduction of her latest… READ MORE