Politics

The Israel-India worker deal resembles British indenture.

Long decried by liberals and conservatives alike, the Martinican psychiatrist remains one of the most piercing critics of colonialism.

What the concert hall attack means for the Russian leader's future.

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

A Palestinian catalog of ruin and resilience.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

On the Guyanese revolutionary’s writings on anticolonial struggle.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A tragedy in Birmingham and the making of a radical.

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

Freedom needs builders, not theorists.