Politics

What Happened to Liberalism?

Becca Rothfeld speaks with Samuel Moyn about his book Liberalism Against Itself and why liberalism is in crisis.

  • Samuel Moyn
  • Becca Rothfeld

Saving Bidenomics

Biden’s industrial policy program promises a massive shift from decades of neoliberal orthodoxy. Can it deliver inclusive gains in time?

  • K. Sabeel Rahman

False Messiahs

How Zionism’s dreams of liberation became entangled with colonialism.

  • Barnett R. Rubin

The Future of Speech on Campus

Private universities should respond to the charge of hypocrisy with a maximalist approach to free speech.

  • Ethan Bueno de Mesquita

The War on Hospitals

Israel’s attacks on health care workers and facilities in Gaza are unprecedented.

  • Joelle M. Abi-Rached

Salvation Now

Fifty years ago, religion met Marxism in the liberation theology movement. Its message still serves.

  • Travis Knoll

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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

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
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