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To make change, movements need to build endurance—the capacity to keep people showing up despite their differences.
Movement building requires a culture of listening—not mastery of the right language.
Lionel Trilling crystallizes the cynical Cold War liberalism that sacrificed idealism for self-restraint.
How a little-understood feature of urban finance—municipal bonds—fuels racial inequality.
The late South African intellectual and activist—imprisoned on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela—fought for a world without race and class. His writings remain essential.
What happens when radical historians write for the public.
Fifty years ago, the American Indian Movement occupied the site of a historic massacre. They won real gains in the face of brutal counterinsurgency tactics.
Why did Chicago become the headquarters of free market fundamentalism? Adam Smith offers a clue.
A conversation with Dan Berger and veteran activists Zoharah Simmons and Michael Simmons on the origins of Black Power and the work of coalition building.
In Rules to Win By, Jane McAlevey and Abby Lawlor reject backroom dealmaking. Rank-and-file workers are going even further.
In Foolproof, psychologist Sander van der Linden compares misinformation to viral infection—and claims to have a vaccine.
Amna Akbar talks with Bernard Harcourt about his new book—and how we can build on existing forms of cooperation to transform society.
Far from spelling the end of anti-market politics, basic income proposals are one place where it can and has flourished.
Being serious about equality means aiming to ensure we all live equally flourishing lives—not merely that we have the chance to do so.
The history of debates about educational outcomes holds important lessons.
The aim is a classless society, not equal outcomes.
It doesn't entail an embrace of the status quo.
Daniel Boyarin makes the seemingly paradoxical proposal that in order to end Zionism, Jewishness should be defined as nationhood.
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