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What Is Political Violence?
Pundits and politicians conceal the truth: it’s all around us, perpetrated by our political system itself.
The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide
Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.
Will Democrats Learn from the Establishment’s Loss?
The David Hogg affair, Zohran Mamdani’s win, and the future of the Democratic coalition.
The Outcasts of Zion
The manufacturing of Jewish Zionist consensus lies at the heart of American liberalism’s identity crisis.
The Migrant Pope
Francis challenged the ethnonationalism of the U.S. Catholic right. With the election of Leo XIV, the battle lines are being retraced.
A Real Post-Neoliberal Agenda
Bidenomics foundered on ten years of Democratic reluctance to declare war on inequality.
The Lexicon of Empire
The long battle between liberals and Black intellectuals over the meaning of colonialism.
“It’s Our Job to Be Popular”
A conversation with Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party, on the way forward after the Democrats’ loss.
Where Did the Labor Vote Go?
Until unions open the gates, they won’t deliver working-class voters to Democrats.
Notes on Fighting Trumpism
To mobilize the abandoned working class, we need to revive the idea of solidarity.
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Donald J. Trump
The tragic reascent of Trump is not an anomaly to democracy but its fatal flaw.
What Turned Poor White Counties Red?
Arlie Russell Hochschild blames an emotional blindness to facts, erasing the Democrats’ deep failings.
The Harris Doctrine
Would Kamala Harris’s foreign policy depart from Biden’s? Clues from the work of her national security advisor, Philip Gordon.
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