Breaking the Racial Contract
The crisis that deepened the chasm between the one percent and the rest also offers an opportunity to build a new, transracial coalition of the disadvantaged.
Fall 2025
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The Promise of Title IX: Sexual Violence and the Law
The campaign led by Title IX activists has shown why we need remedies outside of criminal law to fight sexual harassment and promote equality, as much in the workplace as on campus.
In Praise of Amateur Politics
Leftists will never entirely be released from the obligation to engage with the Democratic Party, but the left’s strength, and its power, will always lie outside formal politics.
With a counter-argument from Michael Kazin.
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.
The Protest Poets
Our nation’s language when it comes to race is exhausted. These poets are forging a new one.
The Class Politics of Black Lives Matter
To seek liberation for black people is also to destabilize inequality in the United States at large, and to create new possibilities for all who live here.
Reproductive Justice, Not Just Rights
The language of choice has proved useless for claiming public resources that most women need in order to maintain control over their bodies and their lives.
Why Free College Is Necessary
Higher education can’t solve inequality, but the debate about free college tuition does something extremely valuable. It reintroduces the concept of public good to education discourse.
The Not-So-Great Society 
We can appreciate the positive changes LBJ’s Great Society programs brought about without downplaying their weaknesses in conception and execution.
Back to Class
It is time to think about class. The insurgencies we most need today are the insurgencies of large numbers.
Reclaiming Abortion Rights
How can the reproductive rights movement start to win again? “Start” is the operative word. We’re getting crushed out there.
Generation Debt
Education is a human right. Anyone willing and able should be able to attend an institution of higher education irrespective of their ability to pay for it.
The Nameless
“Most of those who made the movement weren’t the famous; they were the faceless. They weren’t the noted; they were the nameless—the marchers with tired feet, the protestors beaten back by billy clubs and fire hoses, the unknown women and …
Museum of the Future?
By any comparison with the old Whitney, the new museum is a triumph. But can the interest shown by the wealthy in paying for museums be shifted elsewhere?
The Case Against Free College
Without an overhaul of how we understand student benefits, making college free would boost the wealth of college attendees without any egalitarian gains.
