Politics
Syria’s “Human Debris”
The new government’s greatest challenge may be rebuilding a just society in the aftermath of barbaric state violence.
“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.
The AI We Deserve
Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?
Becoming Lula
How a metalworker became perhaps the most voted-for person on the planet—and a model for the future of the left.
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.
The Parenting Panic
Contrary to both far right and mainstream center-left, there’s no epidemic of chosen childlessness.
Memory Lags
Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Nihon Hidankyo, an association of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors, is a small step to facing the truth so long denied.
Event Recording: A Year of War
A discussion on paths to a political solution in Israel and Palestine. With Raja Shehadeh, Leila Farsakh, Alon-Lee Green, and Helena Cobban, moderated by Barnett R. Rubin.
The Violent Exhaustion of Liberal Democracy
A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we must aim at more than restoring its mythical former splendor.
The Cost of China’s Prosperity
For Hong Kong and Taiwan, neoliberalism’s falling tides made political repression inevitable.
What Turned Poor White Counties Red?
Arlie Russell Hochschild blames an emotional blindness to facts, erasing the Democrats’ deep failings.
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