The moment has come for a government commission on slavery and its present-day impacts; the moment has come for profound change.

How can anthropologists approach the influence of economists?

Businesses want and need anthropologists. It’s time we claimed our skills and told industry leaders what our training and expertise can do for them.

We are presented with an opportunity to make virtual spaces more accessible, which means more disabled people will be able to actively be present.

Racism permeates the academy. We will need more than performative allyship and symbolic statements condemning racism in society if we are to build a more inclusive anthropology.

We do not sit outside of the world in which we live. The current fight over the fate of Confederate monuments in US life is a direct struggle that calls for direct action by us all against racism.

Ted Gideonse is a medical anthropologist who studies the effects of public health discourses about HIV and drugs.

Political myth-making about America’s rural “heartland” is doubly pernicious, increasing rural vulnerability to COVID-19 and ignoring the disintegration of rural health services.