Donald Trump is back in the White House. How did he get there? Why did the Democrats fail? And what can we do to fight back?

In Trump’s Return, David Austin Walsh takes us inside Trump’s motley coalition of tech billionaires and “America First” nativists, examining its crackups and assessing its strength. With the right’s strategy of anti-“wokeness” now effectively spent, will these alliances hold? Marshall Steinbaum reads Bidenomics in light of the long arc of Democrats’ economic policy since the Great Recession, finding that it neglected the biggest problem: inequality. And Jeanne Morefield exposes the lie at the heart of MAGA’s “invasion” narrative about the fentanyl crisis, showing how decades of bipartisan fixation on enemies abroad—and denial of the exceptional savagery of capitalism at home—have led to this moment.

Looking forward, Noura Erakat follows the imperial boomerang from Palestine as it deepens political repression in the United States, and Robin D. G. Kelley plots a revival of class solidarity as the only path to durable and meaningful resistance. Plus, Janice Fine and Benjamin Schlesinger on growing the labor movement and fighting plutocracy, and Mark Schmitt on the new oligarchy’s electioneering and how to combat it.

The issue also includes Gianpaolo Baiocchi on lessons from Lula’s extraordinary success in building a workers’ party in Brazil, Joelle M. Abi-Rached on the trauma of political violence and Syria’s future after the fall of Assad, Aaron Bady on the right’s resurgent natalism and liberal panic about falling birthrates, and Samuel Hayim Brody on the reality of settler colonialism and the mystifications of Adam Kirsch.

Full list of contributors: Joelle M. Abi-Rached, Aaron Bady, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Samuel Hayim Brody, Noura Erakat, Janice Fine, Robin D. G. Kelley, Jeanne Morefield, Benjamin Schlesinger, Mark Schmitt, Marshall Steinbaum, and David Austin Walsh.