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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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Why Is America the World’s Police?

A new book tells the history of how U.S. political elites sold the United Nations to the public as a route to global peace, while all along wanting it as a cover for militarization.

Sam Lebovic

Class & Inequality, Politics

The World Henry Ford Made

A new history charts the global legacy of Fordist mass production, tracing its appeal to political formations on both the left and the right.

Justin H. Vassallo

Law & Justice, Politics

Democracy Is on the Ballot

Donald Trump's winning strategy.

Reed Hundt, Joshua Cohen

Politics

Rethinking Political Economy

Rejecting market fundamentalism, Rethinking Political Economy will provide space for advancing alternatives—in theory, politics, and policy—to the neoliberalism of the last forty years.

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Law & Justice, Politics

Trump’s America Remains Stuck in the Shadow of Reagan

Only a few decades old, the corporate autocracy the former president unleashed on the United States is not natural law. It had to be created, and it can also be undone.

Martin Gelin

Politics, Science & Nature

The Trouble with Carbon Pricing

Carbon pricing has dominated conversations around climate policy for decades, but it is ineffective. Only a bold approach that centers politics can meet the problem at its scale.

Matto Mildenberger, Leah C. Stokes

Law & Justice, Politics

American Democracy Is in the Mail

U.S. democracy and the U.S. postal service share a long, entangled history. An attack against one signals an attack against the other.

Daniel Carpenter

Politics

What Can Elections Do?

Without pressure from social movements, they won’t produce meaningful and deeply needed reform.

Justin H. Vassallo

Law & Justice, Politics

What's Next for Abortion Law?

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling is only the latest twist in the convoluted legal history of women’s reproductive rights. The future looks no less partisan.

Mary Ziegler

Politics

Inventing Nonviolence

Judith Butler’s ‘The Force of Nonviolence’ advocates for pacifism but neglects much of the tradition’s philosophy and feminist theory. Is it possible to merge Butler’s insights with a serious concern for how nonviolent politics can be effective?

Alexander Livingston

Politics

Power to the Parliaments

The COVID-19 crisis presents a unique and urgent opportunity to rebalance power away from executives and back to legislatures.

Aslı U. Bâli, Hanna Lerner

Politics

The Policy Bedrock of a True New Deal

Five policies we need now.

Felicia Wong

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