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The long battle between liberals and Black intellectuals over the meaning of colonialism.
A conversation with Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party, on the way forward after the Democrats’ loss.
Unions turned out for Harris, but Democrats can no longer expect them to deliver working-class voters.
To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity.
The tragic reascent of Trump is not an anomaly to democracy but its fatal flaw.
Would Kamala Harris’s foreign policy depart from Biden’s? Clues from the work of her national security advisor, Philip Gordon.
Fundamental change has eluded movements that flourished in Ferguson. But their promise is still unfolding.
For generations of American radicals, the path to liberation required a new constitution, not forced removal.
A Vietnam veteran on the political legacy of self-sacrifice and the necessity of war resistance.
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Democrats increasingly rely on affluent suburbanites. Does that spell the end of a bold economic agenda?
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.
Why did the blue city agree to host the Republican National Convention—and to suspend a hard-won police reform for its duration?
Biden’s industrial policy program promises a massive shift from decades of neoliberal orthodoxy. Can it deliver inclusive gains in time?
How U.S. laws—branding Palestinians as “terrorists” and redefining anti-Semitism—serve Israel’s interests.
Janice Fine explains how “co-enforcement”—a bold new model for upholding labor law—is linking the state to social movements.
How a little-understood feature of urban finance—municipal bonds—fuels racial inequality.
Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Margaret Burnham on her work reconstructing Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.
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