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Tag: U.S.

The problem is no longer “money in politics.” It’s just money.

Mark Schmitt

The long battle between liberals and Black intellectuals over the meaning of colonialism.

Sam Klug

A conversation with Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party, on the way forward after the Democrats’ loss.

Daniel Cantor, Maurice Mitchell

Unions turned out for Harris, but Democrats can no longer expect them to deliver working-class voters.

Benjamin Schlesinger, Janice Fine

To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity.

Robin D. G. Kelley

The tragic reascent of Trump is not an anomaly to democracy but its fatal flaw.

Peter E. Gordon

The colonial making of Taiwan’s chip supremacy.

Brian J. Chen

Dismantling it requires getting the story right.

Elizabeth Catte

Would Kamala Harris’s foreign policy depart from Biden’s? Clues from the work of her national security advisor, Philip Gordon.

Michael Brenes

Fundamental change has eluded movements that flourished in Ferguson. But their promise is still unfolding.

Blake Strode

For generations of American radicals, the path to liberation required a new constitution, not forced removal.

Aziz Rana

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

David Cortright

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Democrats increasingly rely on affluent suburbanites. Does that spell the end of a bold economic agenda?

Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson

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.

Jefferson Cowie, Aziz Rana

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

Rachel Ida Buff

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

K. Sabeel Rahman

A tragedy in Birmingham and the making of a radical.

Ed Pavlić

How U.S. laws—branding Palestinians as “terrorists” and redefining anti-Semitism—serve Israel’s interests.

Maryam Jamshidi
Thad Williamson

Janice Fine explains how “co-enforcement”—a bold new model for upholding labor law—is linking the state to social movements.

Paul Engler, Mark Engler, Janice Fine

How a little-understood feature of urban finance—municipal bonds—fuels racial inequality.

Clark Randall

Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Margaret Burnham on her work reconstructing Jim Crow terror, within and outside the law.

Margaret A. Burnham, Jeanne Theoharis

What happens when radical historians write for the public.

David Waldstreicher

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