Colin Gordon

Gary Gerstle’s new book tackles important questions of the last century about democracy, economy, and war. But it fails to answer a basic question.

The promise of US federalism is that states will be “laboratories of democracy." The reality is that states are more often laboratories of authoritarianism.

Federal housing policies contributed to the segregation of American cities in the twentieth century. But it was private interests that led the way.

Due to racist policies, Black Americans are dying of COVID-19 at much higher rates than whites, and nowhere more so than in St. Louis.

In order to win universal health care, we have to understand what — and who — we're up against.