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The Philosophy of Our Time

Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential Marxism offers a radical philosophical foundation for today’s revitalized critiques of capitalism.

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Politics

Selling Outrage

Yochai Benkler argues that the mainstream media is our best hope for tempering the radical right.

Yochai Benkler, Deborah Chasman

Global Justice

Evil Empire

Militarization. Imperialism. American hypocrisy. Our latest issue is available to order now.

Race

The Origins of Birthright Citizenship

The Fourteenth Amendment was shaped by freed blacks’ insistence that everyone born in the United States deserved full citizenship.

Literature & Culture

Chronicling the Last Days of Old New York

In his acerbic and often hilarious Village Voice column, Gary Indiana documented a cultural world being lost to AIDS and corporate greed.

Jeremy Lybarger

Politics

Empire's Racketeers

Wajahat Ali speaks with Pankaj Mishra on the devastating consequences of Western imperialism, globalization, and capitalism and the fate of liberal democracy.

Wajahat Ali, Pankaj Mishra

Politics

Trickle-Down Authoritarianism

Jair Bolsonaro’s presidential victory in Brazil is the latest win for right-wing movements around the globe.

Benjamin H. Bradlow

Gender & Sexuality

Sex Is Not the Problem with Sex Work

Under capitalism, you don’t have to love your job to want to keep it.

Juno Mac, Molly Smith

Literature & Culture

Monsters vs. Empire

Trump’s Space Force is a bad reboot of the old imperial fantasy of control from above.

Politics

This Is Not a Witch Hunt

Trump would do well to remember that it is only a witch hunt if the accusations are untrue.

Jonathan Beecher Field

Race

Racism and the Wisconsin Idea

Scott Walker and Paul Ryan broke from Wisconsin’s long progressive history. But as liberals search for what went wrong, they must not ignore the state’s legacy of systemic racism and inequity.

S. Ani Mukherji

Class & Inequality

Think Different

Free the Beach

Andrew W. Kahrl

Marx’s New Deal

Marshall Steinbaum

The Democrats’ Yawning Silence on Trade

The Limits of Antitrust Enforcement

Left Behind by Korea’s Success

The Last Man to Know Everything

The Market Police

Public Benefit, Incorporated

Lenore Palladino

Race

The Origins of Birthright Citizenship

Hoverboarding While Black

Clarence Harlan Orsi

White Supremacy Has Always Been Mainstream

Stephen Kantrowitz

Sorry, Not Sorry

Robin D. G. Kelley

When the Klan Came to Town

Michael McCanne

Racism and the Wisconsin Idea

S. Ani Mukherji

MLK Now

Brandon M. Terry

Black AfterLives Matter

How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management

Caitlin C. Rosenthal

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Liberalism and the Left

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American politics has seen the fiercest resurgence of left-liberal conflict since the 1960s. These pieces survey what’s at issue—from identity politics and the legacy of the Clintons, to Sanders, socialism, and the future of the Democratic Party.

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