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The Law Ought to Be King
Thailand has been gripped by the largest wave of protest in years, forcing a reckoning between the country’s dual structures of democracy and monarchy.
In the Shadow of Reagan
Only a few decades old, the corporate autocracy the former president unleashed on the United States is not natural law. It had to be created, and it can also be undone.
Colonizing the Future
Working people are forever kept on the brink of going broke—preventing them from having any control over their own futures.
Is Freedom White?
Talk of American freedom has long been connected to the presumed right of whites to dominate everyone else.
How Early Modern Empire Changed Medicine
Global trade, enslaved labor, and colonial warfare created demands for medicines that would work for anyone, anywhere. That pressure to view patients as interchangeable remains with us today.
U.S. Politics is Failing Children
Everyone agrees that child poverty is a problem. Why are Democrats and Republicans so bad at addressing it?
The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
An interview with Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin on the climate crisis, COVID-19, and the future of environmental politics.
The Economic Case for a People’s Vaccine
Ensuring a COVID-19 vaccine is available to all makes both moral and economic sense.
When Quotas Come Up Short
Some gender equality initiatives help to reinforce exclusion rather than dismantle it.
The Novel and the Secret Police
In Vineland, his underappreciated 1990 novel, Thomas Pynchon anticipated a United States in which security would become the greatest good.
American Democracy Is in the Mail
Attacks on the U.S. postal service are attacks on building a more equitable and inclusive society.
Neoliberal Hong Kong Is Our Future, Too
Economists lionize the city as the ideal free market, but the social consequences have been disastrous.
What Can Elections Do?
Without pressure from social movements, they won’t produce meaningful and deeply needed reform.
The Angel of History
Pestilence and plague have often prompted waves of apocalyptic thinking, calling into question the steady march of progress in human history.
Six Labor Policies We Need Now
Workers deserve substantive policy reforms that point the way to a better future, especially in this year of unprecedented crisis.
Repertoires of Rage
Anger’s history—along with the very fact that it has one—can shed light on the hypertrophied emotional climate of today.
Pathologizing Desire
Current contempt for age gap relationships serves to strip both men and women of their agency.
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