How to Socialize America’s Energy
No amount of private-sector innovation will expand renewables’ use to anywhere near the scale needed to avert climate catastrophe, let alone advance a just transition. Here are some alternatives.
Spring 2025
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On Democratic Internationalism
Struggles for democratization are always local struggles: the first thing their protagonists want is a state governed by the people who live in it. We must relearn how to support them.
Let’s Not Change the World After All
On the broad American left, internationalism used to be as common—and as essential—as breathing. What happened?
Birth Control
Two books offer new insights into the last forty-five years of uproar against abortion rights, and the fight to hold onto them.
Fossil Fuels Off Campus
While fossil fuel companies and their political allies continue to fulminate, they are losing ground with public opinion—thanks in no small part to the divestment movement on college campuses.
Murder, They Wrote
The new wave of true crime series has spawned an entire online subculture of amateur sleuths—not to mention vigilantes. But where do we draw the line between journalism, protest, and entertainment?
Austerity vs. the Planet: The Future of Labor Environmentalism
Environmental regulations never got the chance to destroy whole sectors of “good jobs” as their opponents promised they would—fossil fuel companies themselves, backed by neoliberal policy, destroyed them instead.
The Climate After Paris: Introducing Our Spring Issue
Any serious effort to keep global warming below catastrophic levels requires an unprecedented challenge to the fossil fuel industry from the grassroots. It also requires a vision of what the post-fossil future will look like.
Four Inherited Disorders 
Four parables from Adam Ehrlich Sachs’s collection, Inherited Disorders.
Brazil’s Landless Workers Rise Up
It is notoriously difficult to convict corporations of a crime in a foreign country. But on November 17, 2015, a Brazilian judge found the Swiss transnational agribusiness Syngenta liable for instigating deadly violence. The company was held responsible for attacking …
Occupy the Party
If Sanders does not triumph in 2016, how can those who thrilled at the prospect of a socialist president keep their movement going? One way would be to turn the Sanders platform into the agenda for a new, anti-corporate organization—a Tea Party of the left.
Consumo Consciente
You might mistake Terezinha Silva for a middle-aged eco-fundamentalist from Brooklyn. In fact, she is a militant member of São Paulo’s working-class housing movement. I first met Terezinha at a workshop in São Paulo last summer. In attendance were over …
The Path to Democratic Socialism: Lessons from Latin America
Significant change to our political economy will require significant change to our structure of government. It is hard to see how to get there without some kind of “populist” moment, fraught with danger to other values we believe to be essential.
Painting with Oil
Oil magnate David Koch stepped down from the board of the American Museum of Natural History on December 9, 2015. His departure came only months after dozens of scientists signed a letter calling on the science museum sector to sever …
Socialism and Liberalism: Articles of Conciliation?
Debates between socialists and liberals are not new. But nor, perhaps, are they completely irreconcilable. [From the archives]
