It is tempting to call our new president a fascist, but a fixation on Trump’s authoritarian personality obscures the real menace: the Republican agenda.
Booked: The Empathy of Fiction, with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Novelist and critic Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses his new book of short stories, The Refugees, and how the art of fiction illuminates politics.
Signs of Our Time
The outpouring of witty protest signs at recent anti-Trump protests is something new in the repertoire of social movements. But the thrilling horizontalism that the signs reflect has its limits.
The Savage Entertainer
To win the country back from the likes of Donald Trump, the left needs to better appreciate the toxic charm of right-wing talk radio personalities like Michael Savage.
Toward a Left Foreign Policy: Introduction
The four articles in this section offer thoughtful, albeit contrasting, views about what liberals and radicals ought to say and do about the world outside U.S. borders.
Don’t Curse, Organize
Leftists, in and out of social movements, should instead seize the opportunity that Hillary Clinton’s defeat has given them—by transforming the Democratic Party from inside.
A Tumultuous Year in Dissent
It’s been a rocky year, but not without its highlights for the democratic left. Our best of 2016.
A Debate Without Class
The debate may have helped Hillary Clinton’s chances in November. But if she truly wants to set the United States on a path toward greater economic equality, Clinton will have to put class politics front and center.
Protest Politics: Introduction
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.
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