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It matters that U.S. sanction policies were overseen by a man who grew up watching his parents send money through Western Union to relatives in Nigeria. That man, the deputy [...]

Peace in the Middle East seems more elusive than ever, with Oct. 7 setting off a battle over not just land but the narrative itself. A year has passed in [...]

Byline: ROBYN URBACK; Staff One of the lesser-known heroes of the Holocaust was a man named Rudolf Vrba, a Slovakian Jew who managed to escape from Auschwitz in 1944. Together [...]

For a long while, reparations for Black Americans has been more a debate topic than a reality. But of late, the reality may be catching up with the debate. Since [...]

The arrest of three activists for financial crimes has been assailed as retaliation for lawful protests. Officials said the three had ''facilitated and encouraged domestic terrorism.'' Atlanta police officers and [...]

In the debate over free speech and social justice, commentators on the right and the ''heterodox'' left often claim that college students are all either stridently liberal or cowed into [...]

Byline: Julian Zelizer Our annual celebration of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is a good moment to remember the close historical relationship between dissent from the left and American [...]

A new class of American evangelical leaders is shaking up the Republican Party -- and raising the stakes of the midterm elections. On a recent episode of ''The Run-Up'' podcast, [...]

Byline: Isaac Arnsdorf For the first time since leaving office, former president Donald Trump has started getting specific about what he would do if he wins a second term in [...]

Looking out the window of a plane flying over Boulder, Colorado, recently, I was reminded how much American universities stick out from their surroundings. I'd never been to Boulder, or [...]

Byline: KARIMA-CATHERINE GOUNDIAM Founder and chief executive officer of digital strategy firm Red Dot Digital and business matchmaking platform B2BeeMatch I often write about the challenges of being a Black [...]

WEDNESDAY will be the second anniversary of the lurid street murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. The killings of Black people had become almost banal in their [...]

Byline: Michael Lee For DeMar DeRozan to have a season that was once part of his childhood imagination, he had to first be honest as an adult about what was [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND, Va. - It was hard to miss the thread running through the race-related policies Gov. Glenn Youngkin purged from the Virginia education system last week [...]

Despite an ongoing legal challenge, New York City is going ahead with a plan for artwork at a new park that will feature messages of social justice, not the statuary [...]

Byline: Lindsey McGinnis Staff writer Abstract: The Daughters of the American Revolution has broadened its membership and historical research, leading to a more accurate, inclusive view of history. When Michelle [...]

Byline: SHAKIL CHOUDHURY Lead Co-founder of Anima Leadership and author of the new book Deep Diversity: A Compassionate, Scientific Approach to Achieving Racial Justice Right after 9/11, almost exactly 20 [...]

After years of pressure, and amid a growing trend away from names that reference Indigenous people, the team will drop its ''Indians'' mascot, which it used for more than 100 [...]

When I joined Twitter 14 years ago, I was living in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, attending graduate school. I lived in a town of around 4,000 people, with few Black people [...]

I have a foggy childhood memory of being home sick from school and watching the 1981 movie ''Skokie.'' It tells the story of a planned neo-Nazi march through Skokie, Ill., [...]

This article originally appeared in the Opinion Today newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it in your inbox each weekday morning. One year ago America was a society [...]

In Wausau, Wis., the county board has debated a resolution aimed at embracing inclusion for nearly a year, with no agreement. Racial tensions that had simmered beneath the surface are [...]

My friend Rod Dreher recently had a blog post for The American Conservative called ''Why Are Conservatives in Despair?'' He explained that conservatives are in despair because a hostile ideology [...]

George Floyd had been dead only hours before the movement began. Driven by a terrifying video and word of mouth, people flooded the South Minneapolis intersection where he was killed [...]

If you care about social justice, you have to care about zoning. Housing segregation by race and class is a fountainhead of inequality in America, yet for generations, politicians have [...]

Byline: Rebecca Asoulin Staff, Eoin O'Carroll Staff writer Abstract: Time is denied to many people because of race, gender, and disability. Here's what we can do to change that. Time [...]

The government report, while acknowledging enduring racism, said Britain provided a model for other white-majority countries on issues of race. Critics accused it of ignoring racial injustice in the country. [...]

Social change can be pursued with mercy and hope. Like a lot of people, I've tried to envision a way to promote social change that doesn't involve destroying people's careers [...]

''Her door being kicked in was our door being kicked in,'' a former state representative said as the first anniversary of Ms. Taylor's death approached. ''It really has transformed everything.'' [...]

Byline: Kyle Melnick After sitting through her town's board of education meeting for more than two hours, the moment had arrived for Destiny Adams to step to the lectern. For [...]

Inspired by racial justice protests, the Legislature repealed a law blocking police misconduct records from scrutiny. Now the outcomes of thousands of cases are available online. Nearly nine months after [...]