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Letter from the Editors: Our 50th Anniversary
We’ll be celebrating with special issues and events, keeping faith with the democratic commitments that serve as our north star.
A Chorus of Defiance
Fifty years after the Vietnam War’s end, lessons from the peace movement on mobilizing resistance.
Mutual Aid in the Age of Fascism
As people are being deputized to do violence, building connections is political resistance.
Mexico’s Disappeared
Forty-three students became democracy’s martyrs. What about the other 110,000 missing?
Lawyers Face an Existential Choice
Conciliation only fuels Trump’s momentum and accelerates our constitutional decline.
Letter to the Editor: “Small Wasn’t Beautiful”
“Ethical consumption” and “small is beautiful” were never dominant ideas on the left.
Lost Liverpool
The city was at the vanguard of working-class obsolescence. How should we understand its fate?
Israel’s Complicit Center
Its parties have embraced the fantasy that conciliation to the far right is the best way to weaken it.
The Insidious Doctrine Fueling the Case Against Mahmoud Khalil
How a century of immigration law has evaded constitutional rights.
The Violence Prerogative
All oppressive, criminal, and genocidal governments cloak their atrocities in the language of virtue.
Portrait of a Foreign Policy Failure
Counterterrorism always trumped diplomacy in Afghanistan—with devastating and enduring consequences.
Social Security Is Not a Ponzi Scheme
Today’s attacks are just the latest form of backlash to the New Deal.
The Limits of Professional-Class Liberalism
How professionals remade the Democratic Party, narrowing its political vision.
How to Save the NIH
Public science too often serves private profits, making it vulnerable to attacks like Trump’s.
Small Wasn’t Beautiful
How the left embraced “ethical consumption” and gave up on the state.
The Reality of Settler Colonialism
Writers like Adam Kirsch mock the idea to demonize critics of Israel. The phenomenon itself remains.
Letter to the Israeli Left
The costs of abandoning politics for interpersonal peace-building.
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