A nuclear bully with Korea in his crosshairs
The US keeps steering toward a collision course with North Korea.
North Korea faces the fury of US empire
North Korea’s nuclear weapons program is a response to US military threats that have escalated since the end of the Cold War.
Will Trump start a new Korean War?
Tensions rise as the US and South Korea conduct their annual rehearsal of an assault on the North. Meanwhile, the South may elect a president who promises to dial back the belligerence.
Slave revolts from Stono to Nat Turner
A look at five armed rebellions and what they tell us about Black revolutionaries before the Civil War.
Can the police be reformed?
Racial profiling and violence are built into the nature of police work, and police forces have been infected with corruption since they were invented.
Origins of the police
New urban working classes in the 19th century resisted their masters through strikes, riots and slave revolts. The masters responded by inventing the cops.
Law and the rise of capitalism
A brief social history of American law, with a focus on four kinds of property — goods, land, people (i.e., slaves) and labor power.
The making of Mandela
The struggles that shaped Nelson Mandela’s character and outlook before his 27-year stint in prison (obituary, 2013).
