Politics

James Baldwin’s Day of Mourning

A tragedy in Birmingham and the making of a radical.

  • Ed Pavlić

There Can Be No Critique

Not only does censorship allow the slaughter of Palestinians to continue; it also serves as the mirror and justification for state violence.

  • Judith Butler

A Different Freedom

American empire pushes freedom down a corrosive path—but that path is not the only one.

  • Aziz Rana
with responses from
  • Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
  • Lea Ypi
  • Jefferson Cowie
  • Adom Getachew
  • Elisabeth R. Anker
  • Julie Rose
  • William Clare Roberts
  • Philippe Van Parijs
  • Nancy Hirschmann & Tamara Metz
  • Lorna N. Bracewell
  • Mark Paul

Instruments of Dehuman­ization

How U.S. laws—branding Palestinians as “terrorists” and redefining anti-Semitism—serve Israel’s interests.

  • Maryam Jamshidi

Seeing Genocide

Israel’s weaponization of images since October 7 obfuscates its genocidal campaign against Palestinians.

  • Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Democracy in the Real World

Theories of justice map what a good society should look like, but they generally offer few details about how to get there.

  • Thad Williamson

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Letter from Berlin

On the situation in Germany in the wake of October 7.

  • Peter E. Gordon

Surviving a Wretched State

Melvin Rogers and Neil Roberts discuss the difficulty of keeping faith in a foundationally anti-Black republic.

  • Melvin Rogers
  • Neil Roberts

Beneath the Razor Wire

Polish director Agnieszka Holland’s new film exposes the violent contradictions at the heart of EU border policy.

  • Paul Hockenos

A Grassroots Government

Janice Fine explains how “co-enforcement”—a bold new model for upholding labor law—is linking the state to social movements.

  • Janice Fine
  • Mark Engler
  • Paul Engler

The Free Speech Exception

Support for Palestinian rights is facing a McCarthyite backlash.

  • Radhika Sainath

Letter from Israel

In the aftermath of October 7.

  • Oded Na’aman

Unlearning Isolation

Mie Inouye and Daniel Martinez HoSang discuss the challenges of organizing in a society that tears groups apart.

  • Mie Inouye
  • Daniel Martinez HoSang

The Only Way Forward

Any peace will depend on a sober assessment of Hamas.

  • Helena Cobban

A Jewish Plea: Stand Up to Israel’s Act of Genocide

“Never again” means standing up for Palestinian people. “Never again” means this very moment.

  • Stefanie Fox

“The Crimes Are Plenty”

A conversation with Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat on the need for a political solution.

  • Noura Erakat
  • Deborah Chasman

Beyond Moral Condemnation

Amid ongoing reporting and ethical outrage, we need context for the fight between Hamas and Israel—and how it shapes possibilities for peace.

  • Rajan Menon

One Bureau under God

Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Lerone A. Martin about the white Christian legacy of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI.

  • Lerone A. Martin
  • Jeanne Theoharis

What Are Families For?

A liberal economist and a family abolitionist agree: our economic system makes human flourishing depend on social units it can’t sustain.

  • Will Holub-Moorman

Warfare Dressed as Water Policy

Palestine’s water access has always been restricted—but now, Israel is using it as a weapon.

  • Andrew Ross

Solidarity Now

To make change, movements need to build endurance—the capacity to keep people showing up despite their differences.

  • Mie Inouye
with responses from
  • Charisse Burden-Stelly
  • Jodi Dean
  • William J. Barber II
  • Alex Gourevitch
  • Astra Taylor & Leah Hunt-Hendrix
  • Sarah Schulman
  • Daniel Martinez HoSang
  • David Roediger
  • Liz Theoharis
  • Juliet Hooker
  • Nathan R. DuFord

How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World Worth?

Movement building requires a culture of listening—not mastery of the right language.

  • Mariame Kaba
  • Kelly Hayes

Liberalism in Mourning

Lionel Trilling exemplifies the cynical Cold War liberalism that sacrificed idealism for self-restraint.

  • Samuel Moyn

Bond Villains

How a little-understood feature of urban finance—municipal bonds—fuels racial inequality.

  • Clark Randall
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