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From Revolution to Reformism

Leaders of the left abandoned the language of transformation in the 1980s—at a cost. Can it be regained?

Adam Przeworski

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Politics

Class & Inequality, Politics

Our Insurance Dystopia

Private insurance companies have long dominated the provision of social security in the United States, but resistance is growing.

Caley Horan

Class & Inequality, Politics

In the Common Interest

How a grassroots movement of farmers laid the foundation for state intervention in the economy, challenging the slaveholding South in the run-up to the Civil War.

Chris Hong, Robert Manduca, Nic Johnson

Politics

Beyond the Nation-State

Sovereign states have been mythologized as the natural unit of political order. History shows how new they are—and how we can think beyond them.

Claire Vergerio

Politics

The Power of the Party

Founded a century ago, the Chinese Communist Party has repeatedly defied predictions of its demise. Today it retains popular support by selectively repressing and responding to social demands.

Macabe Keliher

Class & Inequality, Politics

How Biden Could Save Welfare

Direct payments to families should replace backdoor tax breaks, which obscure the failures of capitalism to sustain social reproduction.

Ben Zdencanovic

Politics

How the Modern NRA Was Born at the Border

Watch our release of documentary short ‘The Rifleman,’ which examines how NRA head Harlon Carter fused gun rights, immigration enforcement, and white supremacy. Then read an interview with filmmaker Sierra Pettengill and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.

Sierra Pettengill, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Politics, Race

The War on Critical Race Theory

Turning a blind eye to the realities of racial injustice, the highly orchestrated right-wing attacks cast a body of scholarship about race in the law as a great threat to American society.

David Theo Goldberg

Class & Inequality, Politics

Portrait of the United States as a Developing Country

A sweeping new history of U.S. capitalism finds that economic gains have always been driven by the state.

Justin H. Vassallo

Class & Inequality, Politics

The Ever Given and the Monstrosity of Maritime Capitalism

Two timely new books unmask the colossal shipping industry behind global trade, whose monstrous pursuit of profit has long wreaked havoc on laborers and the seas they sail through.

Charmaine Chua

Philosophy & Religion, Politics

Polarization or Propaganda?

Two rival theories paint very different pictures of the sources of our democratic dysfunction. The debate won’t be settled by accusations of political convenience.

C. Thi Nguyen

Politics

From Crisis to a New Politics of Care

A recording of our event on the causes and consequences of the deepening care crisis and the possibilities for establishing a new politics of care, boldly reimagined. 

Boston Review

Class & Inequality, Politics

The New Politics of Higher Education

Why the left’s turn from higher education has coincided with a newfound conservative appreciation for it.

Marshall Steinbaum

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