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From Revolution to Reformism

Leaders of the left abandoned the language of transformation in the 1980s—at a cost. Can it be regained?

Adam Przeworski

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Politics, Science & Nature

How to Fix the Climate

Biden should rejoin the Paris Agreement, but diplomacy isn’t enough. To decarbonize the economy, we must integrate bottom-up, local experimentation with top-down, global cooperation.

Charles Sabel, David G. Victor

Global Justice, Politics

Bolsonaro’s War Against Reason

The Brazilian president’s offensive against universities threatens democracy and recalls the dark years of the country’s dictatorship.

Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Marcelo K. Silva

Politics

What Are Parties For?

Basic norms exist for political parties; Republicans don’t meet them.

Jan-Werner Müller

Politics, Race

Births of a Nation, Redux

Surveying Trumpland with Cedric Robinson

Robin D. G. Kelley

Law & Justice, Politics

Democracy Hangs in the Balance

Part two of a conversation on voter turnout, vote counting, and what we can expect now. 

Reed Hundt, Joshua Cohen

Politics, Science & Nature

From the Editor: Thinking in a Pandemic

COVID-19 is not just a public health crisis. It is also a crisis of public reason.

Matt Lord

Politics

In Defense of Politics

The only antidote to despair over national politics will be to generate and expand new solutions at local, state, and regional levels.

Michael Gecan

Class & Inequality, Politics

COVID-19 Provides All the More Reason to Tax the Rich

Tax policies like New Jersey’s new Millionaires Tax are morally and economically essential.

Mark Engler, Andrew Elrod

Politics

When Democracy Ails, Magic Thrives

West German witchcraft trials after World War II reveal how political rupture can fuel magical thinking. What lessons might we draw for our own age of QAnon conspiracies, anti-vaccination, and strange COVID-19 cures?

Samuel Clowes Huneke

Politics, Race

The Long Shadow of Racial Fascism

Radical Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism.

Alberto Toscano

Law & Justice, Politics

Our Undemocratic Constitution

Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation is a sham, but it is one the Constitution allows. There’s only one way out of this crisis: we must amend.

Julie C. Suk

Politics

The Real Reason the GOP Suppresses the Vote

The party’s fifty-year strategy has reached an electoral dead end.

Yochai Benkler

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