Tag: Politics

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

Is there anything left to anti-imperial visions of global commerce?

Becca Rothfeld speaks with Samuel Moyn about his book Liberalism Against Itself and why liberalism is in crisis.

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

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

A liberal economist and a family abolitionist agree: our economic system makes human flourishing depend on social units it can't sustain.

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

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

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

What happens when radical historians write for the public.

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.

Why did Chicago become the headquarters of free market fundamentalism? Adam Smith offers a clue.