This fall’s election campaign may be the most tumultuous one since 1968, and with good reason. How did we get here? And what’s next?
Introducing our Summer special section.
The Two Sides of Hate
Omar Mateen’s horrific mass murder last week in Orlando and Donald Trump’s vicious campaign for president both signal an alarming return of sadism in American life.
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?
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.
Sanders and the S Word
Why does the white-haired firebrand from Vermont insist on identifying himself with socialism, a political faith that has never been popular in the United States?
Trumping History
The Trump phenomenon is best understood as an amalgam of three different, largely pathological strains in American history and culture.
Why Leftists Should Also Be Democrats
Political parties are essential to a healthy democracy. And right now, for Americans on the left, the Democrats are the only party we have.
With a counter-argument from David Marcus.
Why We Argue
A left that doesn’t relish arguing with itself is a left that’s not prepared to change the world.
Cuba, Que Linda Es Cuba? Notes on a Revolutionary Sojourn, 1969
From cutting cane with Fidel to dining with Viet Cong soldiers, some memories from a trip to Cuba with the first contingent of the Venceremos (“We Shall Win”) Brigade.
Why Is There No Antiwar Movement?
Without strong opposition at home, the “war on terror” will stretch into a third decade, with no plausible sign of a conclusion.
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