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From St. Louis to cities nationwide, the potential of Black political representation collides with the hard limits of power, resources and expectation, writes Kling Fellow Lauren Perkins.

PhD candidate Jey Sushil talks with comparative literature scholar Bhavya Tiwari about recognizing the U.S. as a bilingual nation, the importance of reading in de-centering oneself in the world and her own journey through India’s education system to study comparative literature.

The tides of war wrested sovereignty from the residents of Oman’s interior city of Nizwa, but a group of local farmers devised their own cooperative strategies to reclaim control over their livelihoods.

Yoko Ono’s participatory work ‘Mend Piece’ transforms the simple act of repairing broken objects into a powerful meditation on collective healing, resilience and the possibility of mending a fractured world, writes Graduate Student Fellow Kristin Emanuel.

Graduate Student Fellow Hoyon Mephokee (Art History & Archaeology) shows how a French cultural production of the late 19th century blurred distinct forms of “otherness,” repurposing familiar racial frameworks to render a new culture legible — and more readily folded into imperial power.