THE HISTORY of colonialism and imperialism used to be an academic backwater. The subject was widely thought to be irrelevant, and those who studied it fogeyish and reactionary. Their younger ...

This short explainer simplifies the concept of the "White Man's Burden," a phrase used to justify Western imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Learn how this ideology framed colonial ...

Kenya’s communist leader tells the Floodgate podcast that struggles in Nairobi and Gaza share one reality: settler colonialism.

It should come as no surprise to those of us with even a cursory understanding of the history of U.S. imperialism that the once sovereign Kingdom of Hawai’i became the very first state in the nation ...

My birth emerged from European capitalism’s fascistic catastrophe in the 1920s–1940s. That catastrophe also produced Israel’s experiment with settler colonialism in Palestine. This article refers to ...