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Counterterrorism always trumped diplomacy in Afghanistan—with devastating and enduring consequences.

Barnett R. Rubin
Class & Inequality

Today’s attacks are just the latest form of backlash to the New Deal.

Lawrence B. Glickman
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How professionals remade the Democratic Party, narrowing its political vision.

Simon Torracinta, Brent Cebul, Lily Geismer, Dylan Gottlieb, Nicole Hemmer, Danielle Wiggins
Science

Public science too often serves private profits, making it vulnerable to attacks like Trump’s.

Eric Reinhart, Craig Spencer
Politics

How the left embraced “ethical consumption” and gave up on the state.

Udi Greenberg
Arts in Society

The politics of the mad memoir. 

Emmett Rensin
Philosophy

Can language describe everything we feel—and should it?

James D. Reich
Politics

Writers like Adam Kirsch mock the idea to demonize critics of Israel. The phenomenon itself remains.

Samuel Hayim Brody
Politics

The costs of abandoning politics for interpersonal peace-building.

Nevo Spiegel
Class & Inequality

Bidenomics foundered on ten years of Democratic reluctance to declare war on inequality.

Marshall Steinbaum

Donald Trump is back in the White House. How did he get there? Why did Democrats fail? And how can we fight back?

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A Palestinian catalog of ruin and resilience.

Ahmed Moor
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The law occludes the abhorrent violence routinely perpetrated by states in the name of self-defense.

A. Dirk Moses
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How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border.

Noura Erakat

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Silvia Federici interviewed by Jill Richards.

Silvia Federici, Jill Richards
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At the very height of the McCarthy era, he tried to keep alive a free and open debate about American military, economic, and foreign policy.

Andrew Lanham
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