Politics
Mutual Aid in the Age of Fascism
As people are being deputized to do violence, building connections is political resistance.
Free Markets and Fixed Natures
How neoliberals fell in love with “human nature”—the glue that still unites the divergent factions of the new right.
The Chainsaw International
From Trump to Milei, the far right is betting that spectacles of revenge will compensate for steep economic sacrifice.
Lost Liverpool
The city was at the vanguard of working-class obsolescence. How should we understand its fate?
Israel’s Complicit Center
Its parties have embraced the fantasy that conciliation to the far right is the best way to weaken it.
The Violence Prerogative
All oppressive, criminal, and genocidal governments cloak their atrocities in the language of virtue.
Portrait of a Foreign Policy Failure
Counterterrorism always trumped diplomacy in Afghanistan—with devastating and enduring consequences.
Social Security Is Not a Ponzi Scheme
Today’s attacks are just the latest form of backlash to the New Deal.
The Limits of Professional-Class Liberalism
How professionals remade the Democratic Party, narrowing its political vision.
The Reality of Settler Colonialism
Writers like Adam Kirsch mock the idea to demonize critics of Israel. The phenomenon itself remains.
A Real Post-Neoliberal Agenda
Bidenomics foundered on ten years of Democratic reluctance to declare war on inequality.
The Boomerang Comes Back
How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border.
The New MAGA Coalition
There are tensions in his motley coalition, but left-liberal fractures may be even worse.
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