Politics

Songs of White Innocence

Why did the alt-right, so eager to excuse Milo Yiannopoulos, finally turn on him?

  • Judith Levine

Islam on Trial

For too long we have acquiesced to Islamophobic government policies. The cost of our silence is now clear.

  • Jeanne Theoharis
  • Amna A. Akbar
with responses from
  • Wadie Said
  • Sudha Setty
  • Lisa Stampnitzky
  • Su'ad Abdul Khabeer
  • Tarek Z. Ismail
  • Sahar F. Aziz

The GOP’s Anti-Democratic Fetish Runs Deep

Here’s the real reason the GOP made peace with Trump.

  • William E. Scheuerman

Pessoptimism of the Will

Emile Habiby’s absurd fictions offer a map for surviving impossible political conditions.

  • Anjuli Raza Kolb

Scholars in Exile

Refugee scholars in Europe face tremendous obstacles. Now some universities are trying to change that.

  • Paul Hockenos

Funding the Resistance

Taking a stand against Trump has material consequences for government workers. Here’s how we can help.

  • Christopher Kutz

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On Becoming the Enemy

A family of Jewish refugees remembers Berlin before the war.

  • Jason Stanley

The Bartleby Strategy

Our democracy may depend on government workers, and indeed all of us, saying “I would prefer not to.”

  • Judith Levine

What Totalitarianism Looks Like

Five signs of a totalitarian regime.

  • Christopher Lebron

Hamilton’s Choice

Hamilton presents us with the Choice of Hercules retold as a choice between two kinds of political life.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum
with responses from
  • William Hogeland
  • Marta Jimenez
  • Kenneth Warren

#Milosexual and the Aesthetics of Fascism

Milo Yiannopoulos was the paradoxical poster boy for the alt-right—until he wasn’t.

  • Daniel Penny

The President’s House Is Empty

Opting out, as Trump has done with the White House, is a neoliberal habit. But who bears the cost?

  • Bonnie Honig

Six Poems for Political Disaster

Trump’s inauguration featured no poetry. We fixed that. 

Poems for Political Disaster

Marking a moment of rupture, summoning the collective strength found in the language of poetry.

Reagan Used MLK Day to Undermine Racial Justice

The holiday was legislated as part of a strategy to defang King of his most radical qualities while co-opting him into the ideology of colorblindness.

  • Justin Gomer
  • Christopher Petrella

What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racial Capitalism?

A critique that anticipated the political currents of contemporary America.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

Five Looming Geopolitical Crises of the Trump Administration

A reckless foreign policy could bring ruin at home and abroad.

  • Jonathan Kirshner

Is Globalization to Blame?

The loss of jobs that accompanied globalization could have been avoided.

  • Dean Baker
with responses from
  • Peter Evans
  • Robert Lepenies
  • Susan N. Houseman
  • Michael J. Piore
  • Harley Shaiken
  • Alan Tonelson
  • Daron Acemoglu

Back of the Yards

Lessons from a community organizer on building political power.

  • Michael Gecan

Under Western Eyes

Islamophobia is a shared project of the Democrat and Republican parties, long preceding the rise of white nationalism and Trump.

  • John R. Bowen
  • Aziz Rana

Lost Utopias

Alternatives to Zionism, from the Uganda Scheme to Birobidzhan, present a complex history of the search for a Jewish home.

  • Ezra Glinter

The Will of the People

The Electoral College once served an urgent political purpose. The time has now come to abolish it.

  • Kenneth A. Taylor

Garrison America and the Threat of Global War

The crisis of liberal capitalism has arrived, bringing us to the brink of total global war.

  • Alex de Waal

The New Politics of Hope

Where Trump whipped up faith in authoritarianism, Sanders revived hope in collective action. Sustaining that vision of social progress is the central task of the left today.

  • Ronald Aronson
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