Politics

The Fascism Question

Alberto Toscano, Robin D. G. Kelley, Prabhat Patnaik, and more.

Remember Yugoslavia?

The NATO airstrikes, twenty-five years later.

Taxing Toward Utopia

Taxes are good for democracy.

The Judicial War on Government

The Supreme Court’s latest bid to control agencies like the EPA—and Congress itself.

  • Lisa Heinzerling

The “Migrant Crisis”

Harsha Walia, Greg Grandin, Paul M. Renfro, and more.

False Messiahs

How Zionism’s dreams of liberation became entangled with colonialism.

  • Barnett R. Rubin

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Seeking Political Solutions in Israel and Palestine

One state, two states, and other proposals for peace.

Power, Politics, and Markets

The free market is not what it seems.

Unlearning Isolation

Mie Inouye and Daniel Martinez HoSang discuss the challenges of organizing in a society that tears groups apart.

  • Mie Inouye
  • Daniel Martinez HoSang

The Future of Liberalism

Does it offer conceptual tools that could help us tackle today’s crises?

The First 9/11

The U.S.-backed coup against Chile’s Salvador Allende took place fifty years ago this week.

Liberalism in Mourning

Lionel Trilling exemplifies the cynical Cold War liberalism that sacrificed idealism for self-restraint.

  • Samuel Moyn

The Long Reach of Campus Politics

The university plays a central role in broader struggles over economic and political power.

Making Hope Possible

On the utopian and dystopian tendencies of our current conjuncture.

Politics Is Bananas

After years of relative neglect, consumption is once again being politicized.

Neville Alexander’s Struggle Against Racial Capitalism

The late South African intellectual and activist—imprisoned on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela—fought for a world without race and class.

  • Salim Vally
  • Enver Motala

The Precarious State of Israeli Democracy

Putting Israel’s recent protests in context.

Who’s Afraid of Social Contagion?

Our ideas about sexuality and gender have changed before, and now they’re changing again.

  • Hugh Ryan

The Question Concerning (Workplace) Technology

Will workers and the public get a say in how it’s used?

The Secret History of Revolutions

From the Magna Carta to the Mexican Revolution, there’s more to them than meets the eye.

Wounded Knee’s Radical Legacy

Fifty years ago, the American Indian Movement occupied the site of a historic massacre. They won real gains in the face of brutal counterinsurgency tactics.

  • Joel Whitney

After Affirmative Action

Can education fix inequality?

The Pursuit of Empire

The United States routinely contradicts its founding ideals.

All Roads Lead to Cooperation

Amna Akbar talks with Bernard Harcourt about his new book—and how we can build on existing forms of cooperation to transform society.

  • Amna A. Akbar
  • Bernard E. Harcourt
  • Anthony Morgan
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