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“The most brilliant historian of the black freedom movement” reveals how simplistic views of racism and white supremacy fail to address racial ineq...

A deft and caustic takedown of the new prophets of profit, from Bill Gates to Oprah As severe environmental degradation, breathtaking inequality, a...

An indispensable window into the changing shape of the American working class and American politicsThirteen months after Trump allegedly captured t...

What America has at stake when some children go to school hungry and others ride in $1,000 strollers In an age of austerity, elite corporate educat...

Latin America’s experiments in direct democracySince 2011, a wave of popular uprisings has swept the globe, taking shape in the Occupy movement, th...

Blending personal memoir with historical accounts, this searing history of the Jim Crow South captures the realities of those who experienced it—an...

American history told from the vantage of immigration politics It is often said that with the election of Donald Trump nativism was raised from the...

A strategic guide to building a more democratic and egalitarian futureWhy is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich ...

“This superbly succinct and incisive book” on urban planning and real estate argues gentrification isn’t driven by latte-sipping hipsters—but is en...

All politics are climate politics in the twenty-first century—and this bold book argues for a Green New Deal that confronts both climate change and...

A deep dive into Joe Biden’s history and the origins of his political valuesYesterday’s Man exposes the forgotten history of Joe Biden, one of the ...

Are multi-national corporations like Walmart and Amazon laying the groundwork for international socialism? For the left and the right, major multin...

An “invigorating” vision of four post-capitalist futures that consider the intersections of technology, the environment, and modern politics (The G...

Drugs are ubiquitous in the past and present of capitalist society. What can they tell us about our society and economy?Americans are in the midst ...

A Left-wing populist insurgency exploded across the West in the wake of the Great Financial CrisisAfter decades of retreat, the last decade saw a l...

An indispensable guide to building a fighting feminist movement for reproductive freedomWith an antiabortion majority on the Supreme Court and seve...

Ending the horrors of police violence requires addressing economic inequalityIn the wake of the mass protests following the police murder of George...

A reinterpretation of thinkers from Benjamin and Rosenzweig to Simone Weil and DerridaJudaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays challenges the ph...

Kant forms the centerpiece of Alexandre Kojeve’s intriguing discovery of objective reality and its repressed history in Western philosophyDuring th...

This first modern study provides an original and balanced perspective of a theorist whom Lenin referred to as both ‘master of Marxism’ and ‘renegad...

This classic biography of Karl Marx, complete with Gareth Stedman Jones’ poignant introduction, is unlike any other account of its subject. Focusin...

“Very few men,” said Bakunin, “have read as much, and, it may be added, have read as intelligently, as M. Marx.” S. S. Prawer’s highly influential ...

Kashmir is one of the most protracted and bloody occupations in the world—and one of the most ignored. Under an Indian military rule that, at half ...