Uncovering the role of Northern agriculture in economic growth and the expansion of federal power in nineteenth-century America.

This interview with Carlo Ginzburg, which we are publishing here for the first time, was conducted a decade ago at the University of Chicago.

Featuring Aslı Bâli, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, and Nicholas Mulder on the economic warfare unfolding with the US-Israeli war on Iran—and beyond.

These events will take place in-person in Baltimore, Maryland in March 2026 at the 2026 AWP Conference and Bookfair. Unless otherwise noted, these events will not be available to watch online.

The largest immigration detention center in the Midwest is in Michigan. Since October, the average daily population there ballooned to more than 1,300 people. Each week, a retired evangelical pastor from West Michigan goes to visit people there. Our producer Michelle Jokisch Polo tells that story.

In a new book called Why Whales Sing, Eduardo Mercado details his life's work to try and understand what whale songs are all about.

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Despite pressures from Washington, press directors say they will stay the course while dealing with economic concerns.

Podcast Episode · Instant Genius · 11/07/2025 · 21m

In public health researcher William Lopez’s new book, he studies worksite raids in small, rural and mostly white communities. In “Raiding the Heartland,” he said immigration enforcement has long-lasti...

A Practical Handbook

How rural communities resist ICE and support their neighbors.

A scholar looked at how the enforcement tactic upends communities, leaving many feeling “like a tornado” hit their town.

Until recently, the southern U.S. border dominated most discussions of immigration, but public health scholar Lopez (Separated) ...

Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

The ‘death tax’ is already dead. That’s why Republicans stopped trying to kill it.

In ‘The Trouble of Color,’ the Johns Hopkins University professor blends a legacy of enslavement, passing, Jim Crow, and colorism into a complex portrait of an American family in an all-too-often raci...

An acquisitions editor offers eight tips for marketing-shy academics.

“Rise of the Zombie Bugs” explores how parasites create real-life zombies in the insect and invertebrate world.

"Once the egg hatches, the ant has only a few weeks of life before it succumbs to the manipulations of its attacker, stumbling away from its home and family and then undergoing decapitation from the i...