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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.
Center-left parties should learn that small-bore solutions are a waste of time.
The neofascist assault on democracy is a last-ditch effort on the part of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis. The only solution is a decisive retreat from globalized finance.
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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