Politics

Growing Up Under Mugabe

On the enduring legacy of a dictatorial ruler.

  • Naseemah Mohamed

One Year Later

We have to do much more than fight back, we have to fight for the world that could liberate and sustain us all when Trump is gone.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

Rescuing Economics from Neoliberalism

As we heap scorn on neoliberalism, we risk throwing out some of its most useful ideas.

  • Dani Rodrik

#ThemToo

To fight sexual harassment in the workplace, we must learn from the history of women in the labor movement.

  • Judith Levine

Keeping the Faith

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s latest book, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, is his clearest expression yet of political fatalism. But black activism has always believed in the possibility of change.

  • Melvin Rogers

In the Name of Victims

Looking beyond the symbolic crisis to the realities of Title IX implementation.

  • Kristin Bumiller

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Two Cheers for Polarization

We may not like it, but when it comes to U.S. politics, polarization may very well be part of the solution.

  • Sam Rosenfeld

America’s Imperial Unraveling

Could Trump’s repudiation of the Iran Deal be the beginning of the end of U.S. hegemony abroad?

  • Aslı Ü. Bâli
  • Aziz Rana

An Empire unto Himself

When it comes to sexual assault, Harvey Weinstein is old-school. But Trump has changed the rules of the game.

  • Bonnie Honig

Against Second-Rate Democracy in Kenya

Citizens of African countries are expected to accede to a lower political standard than real democracy. Not only does this perpetuate the old colonial imagination, it is also fundamentally wrong.

  • Aziz Rana

Monopoly Men

After an eventful summer in Silicon Valley, there is blood in the water. At stake is democracy itself.

  • K. Sabeel Rahman

Schlesinger and the Decline of Liberalism

Schlesinger’s America has vanished, as has his unique brand of liberalism.

  • Andrew J. Bacevich

Disrupting the Conservative Platform

Given today’s economic challenges, some on the right are beginning to embrace a more robust safety net.

  • Mark Muro
  • Clara Hendrickson

To Map, to Warn, to Hope

Introducing Global Dystopias.

  • Junot Díaz

No Eulogy for the Living

An open letter to the Philippines.

  • Miguel Syjuco

Writing While Socialist

Vijay Prashad on writing, struggle, and hope in difficult times.

  • Vijay Prashad
  • Mark Nowak

What White Supremacists Want

Trump's paternalistic language of care draws an exceptional circle around whites only.

  • Bonnie Honig

Know Thy Futurist

Many visions of the future proliferate in Silicon Valley. Which one is worth fighting for?

  • Cathy O’Neil

The Descent of Democracy

While the United States has expanded its borders of inclusion over time, the borders of whiteness have never fallen. Only a robust black public sphere can change that.

  • Khalil Gibran Muhammad

The German Left Is Its Own Worst Enemy

Could Germany's left-wing parties unseat Angela Merkel in Sunday's election? Only if they bury the hatchet.

  • Paul Hockenos

Draining the Swamp

Mar-a-Lago is the apotheosis of the Florida Dream in which wealthy interests degrade the environment and hollow out prospects for the poor. But as Hurricane Irma shows, this dream was never sustainable.

  • Julian C. Chambliss

The Putin Problem

Western leaders think of Putin as an aberration. They are wrong.

  • Thomas Graham
  • Rajan Menon

It’s The Gap, Stupid

Three books draw a disturbing picture of America as a system of compounding inequality driven by a hereditary meritocracy of professional elites.

  • Archon Fung

When Politics Drives Scholarship

Nancy MacLean’s new book has set off a heated debate. But strong claims require strong evidence, and mistakes could mislead liberals and the left.

  • Henry Farrell
  • Steven M. Teles
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