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AN has collected remembrances from authors, architects, and academics on the late Mike Davis, an author and urban theorist.

During his life, Jerome Rappaport made great donations to hospitals, colleges, and museums. He also razed an entire neighborhood to the ground and fought fervently to degrade tenant rights.

For years, the establishment press has utterly ignored workers and news about labor issues. Change is long overdue.

By Thomas B. Edsall Aug. 30, 2018 The question of whether America will become a majority-minority nation — and when that might happen — is intensely disputed, of enormous political import and extraordinarily complex. This is exactly the same argument as I’ve responded to before. Two articles that appeared in the opinion section of The Times over the past few years made the case that misleading statistical artifacts used by the Census Bureau have increased the fear of a majority-minority America, a fear that played a crucial role in the 2016 election. Both Richard Alba, of CUNY, in “...

The year journalism starts paying reparations “Reparative journalism is explicit in its commitment to doing the work of racial justice, and by extension — without apology — social justice.” This is not a prediction about 2021 as much as it is a call for what must come in the “after” we’ve all been waiting for — some of us longer than others. After 45. After the pandemic. After the uprisings. Now that this consequential year has definitively denuded the unsustainability of American institutions as we know them, the work of reparations can begin. Specifically, the work of repara...