Politics

How Trump Builds: On the Hollow Promise of #InfrastructureWeek

Trump’s infrastructure proposal is more propaganda than plan.

  • Max B. Sawicky

The Conservative Con That Gave Us Trumpcare

The American Health Care Act has a long history that returns us to the New Deal and its critics.

  • Lawrence B. Glickman

How George Osborne and Ed Miliband Saved Labour

It has not been an easy path from Blairite centrism to radical socialist hope.

  • Martin O’Neill

The Death and Life of America’s Waters

From the Great Lakes to the Flint River, we have devastated our waters through negligence, lethargy, and good intentions.

  • Meghan O’Gieblyn

America’s Case of Mistaken Identity

Building a national identity may require offering special accomodations to diverse groups, including those we don't agree with.

  • Rogers M. Smith

He Said, He Said: The Feminization of James Comey

Conservatives routinely deny that gender is fluid. Yet they have feminized Comey in order to bring him down.

  • Bonnie Honig

Sign up for our newsletter

The Ground Beneath Corbyn’s Feet

Theresa May came to bury the Labour Party, but instead she and her party have been deeply damaged.

  • Martin O’Neill

Trump’s Jacksonian Moment

A biography of Andrew Jackson recounts a bloody history and reveals disturbing parallels with Trump.

  • Richard White

The Right to Strike

A rights-based movement is the only way to save labor.

  • James Gray Pope
  • Ed Bruno
  • Peter Kellman
with responses from
  • Alicia Garza
  • Bob Master
  • Isabelle Ferreras
  • Sophia Lee
  • Stephen Lerner
  • Alex Gourevitch
  • Janice Fine
  • Dan Schlademan & Andrea Dehlendorf
  • Cynthia Estlund
  • Bill Fletcher, Jr.
  • Thomas A. Kochan
  • Staughton Lynd

The Real Source of Right-Wing Populism

It’s cultural resentment, not economic malaise.

  • Pranab Bardhan

Democrats and Labor: Frenemies Forever?

The Democratic Party has hastened the demise of the labor movement, but unions have little choice but to stick with them.

  • Erik Loomis

Trump’s Latin American Model

The history of Latin America is littered with failed experiments in populism.

  • Pablo Piccato
  • Federico Finchelstein

Despair Is Not an Option

Bernie Sanders sat down with us to talk about the future of progressive politics.

  • Bernie Sanders
  • Archon Fung

One Nation Under Gods

Despite what Steve King says, the U.S. was never a Christian nation.

  • Richard White

How Immigrants Became Criminals

Most Americans are blind to the separate and unequal justice system that governs immigration detention and deportation.

  • Alan A. Aja
  • Alejandra Marchevsky

Do Outsiders Have Legal Rights?

Stayed or not, Trump's ban highlights the need for strong immigrant rights.

  • Adam Hosein

Lessons from the Nuclear Freeze Movement

It showed how a big-tent coalition can change policy and win elections.

  • Andrew Lanham

How to Spy on a President

On the legal and ethical scope of surveillance.

  • Elizabeth Goitein

Births of a Nation

Surveying Trumpism with Cedric Robinson.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

How People Vote

New theories of voting behavior explain bad outcomes, but are they convincing?

  • Niko Kolodny

The GOP’s Anti-Democratic Fetish Runs Deep

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

  • William E. Scheuerman

Funding the Resistance

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

  • Christopher Kutz

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
trending_flat
Get our newsletter

Vital reading on politics, ideas, and culture to your inbox

A political and literary forum, independent and nonprofit since 1975

Registered 501(c)(3) organization

Help Us Stay Paywall-Free

Donate

Become a Member

Subscribe