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After decades of deference to the market, states are exerting greater control over capital. In the face of climate change, it may be too little, too late.
Mie Inouye and Daniel Martinez HoSang discuss the challenges of organizing in a society that tears groups apart.
Far from a metaphysical battle between fanaticism and tolerance, the Rushdie affair exemplifies the marketization of hurt sentiments.
Companies are unreliable allies in the fight for queer rights and social justice.
The war in Ukraine is shaped by global neoliberalism, sexism, and racism—not just Cold War dynamics.
Critiques of vaccine mandates continue a neoliberal tradition of idolizing private choice at the expense of the public good.
Center-left parties should learn that small-bore solutions are a waste of time.
We’re witnessing the last-ditch effort of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis.
Leaders of the left abandoned the language of transformation in the 1980s—at a cost. Can it be regained?
Many reject privatization for its distributional consequences. The deeper problem is that it threatens the very foundation of political legitimacy.
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