Climate politics are in a very weird place right now. On the one hand, current events would seem to be fertile ground—perhaps more fertile than ever—for generating popular support for climate action.

Over the past fifteen years of observing tech development, I’ve found that terms I once used like “cyber-utopianism,” “Internet-centrism,” and “techno-solutionism” fail to fully capture Big Tech’s ...

In early April, a committee of ten professors submitted a “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences” to the chancellors of Vanderbilt University and ...

As we sat down for dinner the other night, the windows of our Oxford apartment started rattling. Outside, the street was erupting in applause as neighbors put their hands together—and their tin ...

At the time, the event that took place in Boston on the night of December 16, 1773 was not called the “Tea Party.” For more than 50 years, if it was mentioned at all in print, it was usually as “the ...

Editors’ Note: On December 17, 2020, the New England Journal of Medicine published a research letter, “Racial Bias in Pulse Oximetry Measurement,” prompted by this essay. Read the medical study here ...

Police officers often use the charge of “resisting arrest” to criminalize black people who try to defend themselves from brutal, punitive, and often illegal police actions. They also do so to justify ...

With responses from Eric Blanc, Marcus Gadson, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Samuel Moyn, Aziz Huq, Kelly Hayes & Maya Schenwar, and Lily Geismer. Miller replies.

Listen to a reading of this essay, courtesy of curio.io: On the afternoon of April 4, 1968, James Baldwin was relaxing by the pool with actor Billy Dee Williams in a rented house in Palm Springs.

A week after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act (VRA), the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement, the Watts rebellion broke out in Los Angeles. The riots began on ...

Eleven years ago, the mathematician Stefaan Vaes, upon receiving the prestigious Francqui Prize for young scientists from the hands of Belgium’s Queen Mathilde, took the opportunity to tell Her ...