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Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix discuss their new book, Solidarity: The Past, Present, And Future of a World-Changing Idea

Astra Taylor, Leah Hunt-Hendrix, Aziz Rana

A Palestinian catalog of ruin and resilience.

Ahmed Moor

Why is the reality of Palestinian suffering denied in the Israeli consciousness?

Oded Na’aman

A Vietnam veteran on the political legacy of self-sacrifice and the necessity of war resistance.

David Cortright

Forum

Democrats increasingly rely on affluent suburbanites. Does that spell the end of a bold economic agenda? A forum with Heather Gautney, Ro Khanna, Dorian Warren, and others.

Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson

Jefferson Cowie speaks with Aziz Rana about whether the language of freedom can be taken back from its "sordid history" in the U.S. context.

Aziz Rana, Jefferson Cowie

While the U.S.–Israel alliance has become isolated, new ones are emerging.

Helena Cobban

After decades of deference to the market, states are exerting greater control over capital. In the face of climate change, it may be too little, too late.

Jonathan S. Blake

Decades after apartheid South Africa, student activists face a new obstacle: the financialization of university endowments.

Kian Braulik

Contrary to those who cast Marxism as a Eurocentric “white ideology,” the Guyanese revolutionary saw it as an essential component of struggles against colonialism.

Shozab Raza, Noaman Ali

Why did the blue city agree to host the Republican National Convention—and to suspend a hard-won police reform for its duration?

Rachel Ida Buff

Forty years ago, the exiled South African activist dared to teach Zionism critically. A furious backlash ensued.

Abena Ampofoa Asare

Becca Rothfeld speaks with Samuel Moyn about his book Liberalism Against Itself and why liberalism is in crisis.

Samuel Moyn, Becca Rothfeld

Biden’s industrial policy program promises a massive shift from decades of neoliberal orthodoxy. Can it deliver inclusive gains in time?

K. Sabeel Rahman

How Zionism’s dreams of liberation became entangled with colonialism.

Barnett R. Rubin

Private universities should respond to the charge of hypocrisy with a maximalist approach to free speech.

Ethan Bueno de Mesquita

Israel's attacks on health care workers and facilities in Gaza are unprecedented.

Joelle M. Abi-Rached

Fifty years ago, religion met Marxism in the liberation theology movement. Its message still serves.

Travis Knoll

A tragedy in Birmingham and the making of a radical.

Ed Pavlić

Not only does censorship allow the slaughter of Palestinians to continue; it also serves as the mirror and justification for state violence.

Judith Butler

Freedom needs builders, not theorists.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Liberalism failed to deliver on the promise of freedom from fear.

Lea Ypi

We shouldn't rehabilitate the rhetoric of liberty.

Jefferson Cowie

How do we actually build the institutions Rana wants?

Adom Getachew

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