Happy Earth Day 2020! This year, celebrating the outdoors and our planetary biosphere is more important than ever before. Even as California’s landscape is regularly glassed, COVID-19 is offering a glimpse at what a future ecotopia could consist of. And if a week marked by oil prices inve...
Human Rights Day is observed every year on December 10th—the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. A milestone document, it proclaimed the inalienable human rights which everyone is inherently entitled to regardless of race, eth...
By Julie Sze, author of Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger
Bong Joon- Ho’s acclaimed film, Parasite offers a trenchant and thrilling critique of capitalism. In it, a poor family (the Kims) that “infiltrate” a rich family (the Parks) through deceptions that veer into un...
We’re pleased to announce the latest books in the American Studies Now series coming out this fall. A series of short books covering major political and cultural moments and movements at the center of public conversation—from Black Lives Matter to climate change, indigenous politics t...