Historian Stuart Schrader on the untold history of police unions—and how they helped catapult cops to new heights of power and impunity.

It is spring in Palestine, and Eid al-Fitr has just passed. It’s customary to buy new clothes for the feast, but with people desperately short of funds, this tradition was out of reach for most this ...

Political judgment takes place within political time. And political time is less a matter of chronology than of genre. What kind of moment are we living through? Is our system of government undergoing ...

Efforts to control Black mobility—from early passports to the Fugitive Slave Act—laid much of the groundwork for today’s border regimes. From the seventeenth century onward, an array of laws and ...