Racism’s Roots and Branches
Racism in the United States is not mainly about individual bias but about divisions forged long ago by the super-exploitation and political dispossession of racialized groups.
Winter 2025
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An American Conception of Justice
Historians have amply demonstrated how central racism has been to the formation and reformation of the United States. But many of those same ideas and institutions have also been vital to combating white supremacy.
Beyond the Nuclear Family
We won’t end precarity with nostalgia for an era when men were the primary breadwinners.
The Feminist Struggle for Time to Care
The best family policies would lift household income by raising pay and social wages—and would value work wherever it takes place.
The Family Lottery
Family abolitionism puts children’s freedom at the heart of society.
Daddy Issues
The murderous hysteria over white patrimony is inseparable from the private capture of both economic opportunity and political authority.
Abolish Family Policing, Too
The child welfare system is a powerful state policing apparatus that functions to regulate poor and working-class families.
What Was the Fascism Debate?
The clash over whether the Trump era represented the rebirth of fascism represents a disagreement about the role of language and history in shaping contemporary political agendas.
The Fight to Redefine Safety in Texas
Even as their budgets have climbed upward, police departments have deprived sexual assault units of proportional funding for decades. Today, advocates in Texas are trying to transform the state’s approach to sexual violence.
Adam Curtis’s Theory of Everything
Adam Curtis’s latest film paints a picture of the world that is so complex, so dense, and so theoretical that the prospect of real change appears nearly impossible.
All Work and No Play
Video games, like any creative product, reflect and refract the conditions of their production. Today, what they most resemble is twenty-first-century work.
Digital Corbynism
In the UK, the left no longer has a party, but it may still have the tools necessary for retaking it—tools that can be improved, remodeled, and reorganized.
Multiple Mainstreams
Only public investment will deliver a media that can serve the news needs of our time.
The Race Class Narrative Can Win
The rich and powerful use racism to protect their interests and scapegoat communities of color. But there is an effective way to talk about both race and class when organizing for multiracial democracy.
A Modest Exercise in Freedom
The left is at its most intelligent and most ethical when it believes—and vigorously promotes the belief—that everyone has the right to be heard.
