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Drone Photos Give New Insight into Mesopotamian City Structure

Evidence of separate clusters of urbanization on islands separated by marshland suggests that ancient Lagash did not grow out from one administrative and ceremonial center but was a polycentric urban zone. 

The Presidents and Ex-Presidents who have been Subpoenaed Before Trump

by Gillian Brockell

While a Congressional subpoena delivered to a president is unusual, it's not unprecedented. But the past is little guide to how Donald Trump will respond to a call to appear before the January 6th committee.  

Will Other Elite Unis Follow Princeton's Lead in Rejecting Fossil Fuel Money?

by Ilana Cohen and Michael E. Mann

A student movement is realizing its first successes in convincing university administrators to refuse donations that, activists argue, inevitably compromise the integrity of university research on climate change. 

Angelo Codevilla: An Unknown Intellectual Leader of Today's Far Right

by Daniel Luban

The recently deceased political theorist's life helps to explain how a cast of conservative power brokers could move from the War on Terror neoconservatism to the Tea Party to Trumpism. 

Haitians Are United Against Another Foreign Intervention – and a Former US Diplomat is With Them

Daniel Foote resigned as a Special Envoy for Haiti in 2021, and warns that a foreign intervention, if it is seen as propping up the government of Ariel Henry, will be so unpopular it will spark mass violence. 

Leonard Kriegel, 89: Writings Catalyzed Discussion of Disability

Kriegel's writings about his experiences after contracting polio stripped away sentimentality and pity from the literary stereotype of the disabled in favor of a full and often conflicted picture of his own humanity as a disabled person. 

Bombing Kyiv Into Submission? History Says "Unlikely"

The utility of bombing civilian centers has been overrated, and the strength of the backlash such bombing creates underestimated, by military strategists. 

How 1880s Levi's Sold for $76K

Among the period-correct details establishing the provenance of the pants was an inner tag proclaiming the garments were made with only "white labor" in the era of Chinese exclusion. 

Florida's Inquisition Against "Immoral" Professors, and How Two University Presidents Responded

by Emma Pettit

Florida legislators convened an investigative committee in the late 1950s to root out faculty whose political or sexual lives were deemed "subversive." One college president stood aside, and another fought back in public. 

A "Nuclear Posture Review" For the People Would Assess All the Harm of Nuclear Weapons

There are substantial harms involved in maintaining a nuclear arsenal that fall on the poor and people of color whether or not a nuclear warhead is ever detonated. The review of the United States' nuclear policy should incorporate these harms, say two advocates for arms reduction and abolition. 

Sasse Visit to U of Florida Dogged by Protests

Sasse was cagey about his thoughts on legislation like Florida's "Stop WOKE" act and suggested he would be vigilant against "indoctrination" in the classroom. Faculty questioned his commitment to tenure and student protesters decried what they saw as a partisan political appointment. 

Lizzo Talks About the Flute

The pop superstar touches on numerous subjects, including making history belong to everyone and the historical relationship of racist and sexist stereotyping of Black women's performances looking back to Josephine Baker. 

The Ongoing Problem of Segregation in America

by Aziz Rana

The thoroughness of racial segregation through the housing markets is a profound obstacle to the kind of interracial political organizing the left wants to accomplish. 

Which Native Land are You On?

"Native Land Digital, an Indigenous-led nonprofit based in Canada, is working to facilitate such conversations and document this history including by putting together a searchable map of Native territories, languages and treaties."

New Project to Interrogate Indigenous Enslavement in Americas

The project hopes to build a publicly accessible database of documents to allow descendants of enslaved indigenous people to locate information about their ancestors. 

Indigenous Singer-Activist Buffy Sainte-Marie Condemns Doctrine of Discovery at Heart of Colonialism

Indigenous musician and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie has written and sung about the struggles of Native American and First Nations peoples for decades.

Ora Washington was a Champion in the Segregated World of Tennis, But Died in Obscurity

Dominant in African American tennis (and basketball) competition, Washington never had the opportunity to test her ability against the champions of the white tennis establishment. 

Supreme Court Sketch Artist Retires after 45 Years

Although he was paid to sketch the proceedings for decades, Art Lien believes the time has come for cameras in the SCOTUS chambers. 

Honored by Nobel Peace Prize, Memorial Preserves Knowledge of Soviet Atrocities and Warns of Present Imperialism

The Nobel committee gave an implicit rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin in honoring the organization, which was shut down as a "terrorist" group last year, forcing some leaders into exile. 

H. Chandler Davis Was a Moral Touchstone for Scholars on the Left

by Alan Wald

Blacklisted from American academe after defying a HUAC investigation at the University of Michigan, the mathematician (and the spouse of historian Natalie Zemon Davis) continued to teach and work as an activist in Canada until his recent death at 96.