“It’s Our Job to Be Popular”
A conversation with Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party, on the way forward after the Democrats’ loss.
My Father, the Cyborg
The seductions of medical surveillance.
Becoming Lula
How a metalworker became perhaps the most voted-for person on the planet—and a model for the future of the left.
What AI Can’t Do for Democracy
Its potential to enhance civic engagement crucially depends on what policymakers want to learn from the public.
Where Did the Labor Vote Go?
Until unions open the gates, they won’t deliver working-class voters to Democrats.
Engineers of Calamity
Famine denial’s past and present, from Ukraine to Gaza.
Notes on Fighting Trumpism
To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity.
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Donald J. Trump
The tragic reascent of Trump is not an anomaly to democracy but its fatal flaw.
The Parenting Panic
Contrary to both far right and mainstream center-left, there’s no epidemic of chosen childlessness.
Memory Lags
Nihon Hidankyo, winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, makes us see what we cannot: the consequences of our actions.
Event Recording: A Year of War
A discussion on paths to a political solution in Israel and Palestine. With Raja Shehadeh, Leila Farsakh, Alon-Lee Green, and Helena Cobban, moderated by Barnett R. Rubin.
The Violent Exhaustion of Liberal Democracy
A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we must aim at more than restoring its mythical former splendor.
Against False Universals
Seyla Benhabib’s 2024 Adorno Prize lecture.
Abortion’s Future
Activists, not elites, are leading the way forward in a world without Roe.
A Year Since October 7
Noura Erakat, Ariella Azoulay, Judith Butler, and more
The View from Besieged Beirut
In the wake of exploding pagers, universalism plunges into the abyss.
Can Social Democracy Win Again?
The tangled legacy of the Swedish experiment.
The Extortionist’s Doctrine
On the persistence of U.S. nuclear deterrence policy.
The Cost of China’s Prosperity
For Hong Kong and Taiwan, neoliberalism’s falling tides made political repression inevitable.
The Politics of Price
How accounting protocols undermine public goals—from decolonization to climate action.
Semiconductor Island
The colonial making of Taiwan’s chip supremacy.
Who’s to Blame for White Poverty?
Dismantling it requires getting the story right.
Remembering Andreas Eshete
A revolutionary, philosopher, and devoted patriot, he was among Ethiopia’s leading public intellectuals.
Post Colonialism
Along a recently designated historic trail on the U.S.-Mexico border, colonial legacies hide in plain sight.
