The Catastrophe in New York City Jails
The survival of incarcerated people is dependent on slow-moving bureaucrats and the politically calculating whims of sadistic politicians.
Spring 2025
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What It Means to Be Liberal
Like all adjectives, “liberal” modifies and complicates the noun it precedes. It determines not who we are but how we are who we are—how we enact our ideological commitments.
Nudging Toward Theocracy: Adrian Vermeule’s War on Liberalism
A generation of thinkers was raised in the orbit of centrist technocracy. As its luster continues to fade, strange new gods will arise in their midst.
Storming the Castle
In a political culture that fetishized consensus, Phyllis Schalfly was a one-woman polarization machine.
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
A socialist president would have to navigate with great skill between the rocks of utopia and the shoals of compromise.
Native Americas 
We tend to take the present-day shape and status of the United States as a given. What if, instead, we envisioned the Americas as a region of overlapping indigenous territories?
What the New MoMA Leaves Out
The glowing praise for the redesigned MoMA’s embrace of diversity masks deeper historical problems.
The Once and Future Right
The beneficiaries of existing social and economic hierarchies will always fight to maintain them against egalitarian movements for change.
Introducing our Spring 2020 special section, “Know Your Enemy.”
The Rebellion in Catalonia
The militant, nonviolent movement for Catalan self-determination will shape the future of Spanish politics.
Socialism in One Factory
We stand together on one side of a great river, which we all must cross. The workers at the French watch factory Lip swam ahead, and lit a beacon for us all.
Witnessing War, with Carolyn Forché
The author of What You Have Heard Is True talks about her political education in El Salvador.
The Trauma of the Troubles
In recent depictions of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, we find not the blast sites of the conflict but the domestic spaces that absorbed the fallout.
The Municipalist Moment
Movements on the left are increasingly looking to build power at the local level. The question is how to leverage municipal gains to transform the system at expanding scales.
E Pluribus Country
Politics flattens, but the best country music invites us into people’s complex and contradictory lives.
All Were Rebels: The Founding of the Network of East-West Women
Were we to postpone focusing on women’s interests in deference to what always gets named as more urgent—nationalist cries of crisis and cynically manipulated threat? Who gets to make history?
