How states voted with unregulated voting machines and deregulated voter protections

After Alcatraz Prison was decommissioned and listed as surplus federal property, Red Power activists occupied it in various configurations from 1969 to 1971. This is the proclamation they issued to the US Government.

An interview with Jameel Jaffer, who helped force the Obama Administration to release documents underlying its campaign of targeted killings.

The state's racist response to the Standing Rock encampment has alienated some from the ballot box. A dispatch from Nanjala Nyabola.

An interview with Eduardo Rabasa.

Donald Trump foments hope in the exercise of his emotional freedom.

A Roundtable on Basma Abdel Aziz's The Queue.

ageism is a way of ordering people differentially within society based on how much that society menaces them with death, imposing a relation to time, and therefore value, specific to their body type.

A Roundtable on Marie NDiaye's Ladivine

A three-legged stool of a roundtable on African poetry.

Telling people of color their ancestors died for their right to vote is an abusive attempt to force them to affirm their political disempowerment

The riots that "destroyed" Watts in 1965 gave the neighborhood's residents a sense of pride and power

To kick off our Interviews issue, we are giving you a double dose of shrooms for the weekend. Anna Tsing is an anthropologist whose latest…