Aziz Rana

A culture of reverence for the U.S. Constitution shields the founding document from criticism, despite its many shortcomings.

A conversation with the legal scholar on why it is unusual that the Constitution is core to American national identity.

For generations of American radicals, the path to liberation required a new constitution, not forced removal.

On revisiting the anti-imperialism of the 1960s and ’70s amid the return of left internationalism.

The consequences of racial separation are significant for left political organizing aimed at building a multiracial working-class majority.

This post is part of a symposium on “The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution,” a new book by Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath.

The history of anti-racial justice rhetoric.

The veneration of the Constitution is directly connected to America’s emergence as global hegemon.

The pervasive mythmaking about the supposed wisdom of the founders has covered up a central truth: the US Constitution is an antidemocratic mess.

On the ten year anniversary of Aziz Rana's book, Henry Brooks interviews him on his influential book and what it might teach us about the legacies of populism.

For the first time, we are living in a truly post-cold-war political environment in the United States.

By connecting liberation at home with an end to U.S. militarism abroad, today's black activists are picking up where MLK left off.

Recovering black radicalism.

America is best understood not as the first post-colonial republic, but as an expansionist nation built on slavery and native expropriation.