The word "caste" often comes up to describe India's system of social hierarchy, which has segmented society for centuries. But when Martin Luther King Jr. visited the country in 1959, he saw ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson’s new book is “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.” She says the idea of racism is “not sufficient to capture … a world where it was [once] against ...

When filmmaker Ava DuVernay first read Isabel Wilkerson's 2020 book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, she was so stunned, she reread it twice. The bestselling book draws a line between India's ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In 1995, then–Assistant Attorney General Walter Dellinger testified in Congress about ...

In 1913, Woodrow Wilson and his progressives promised that the Federal Reserve would avert both depressions and inflation, while preventing the wealthy from controlling America’s financial markets at ...

Editor’s Note: Keith Magee is senior fellow and visiting professor in cultural justice at University College London Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. He is the author of “Prophetic Justice: ...

Autocracy rarely storms in with tanks– it usually begins with a government list that expands over time. Under Donald Trump, the government’s dragnet is turning toward naturalized Americans, making ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson says racism is an insufficient term for the systemic oppression of Black people in America. Instead, she prefers to refer to America as having a "caste" ...

In a week when would-be GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis told a CNN town hall, “The U.S. is not a racist country,” and his rival Nikki Haley told Fox News, “We’ve never been a racist country,” ...

Written and directed by the exceptionally talented Ava DuVernay, the film — a masterful adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s bestselling book “Caste: The Origins of our Discontents” — unflinchingly ...