Spain’s New Patriots
Podemos has changed the vocabulary and style of the nation’s politics—and altered what it means to be a proud citizen of Spain.
Spring 2025
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Central Railway, Sydney 
A 1996 poem by the late Philip Levine.
Citizen Politics
The new groundswell of mobilized citizens suggests an important break—not only with how we imagine politics but also with how we practice it.
Introducing Our Summer Issue: American Movements
What are the visions and complaints, accomplishments and limits of the largest and most important movements on the left today?
Central Railway, Sydney
Philip Levine, a former auto worker from Detroit and Poet Laureate of the United States from 2011–2012, passed away on February 14, 2015 at the age of eighty-seven. In celebration of his life and work, we present this poem, which …
The Story of My Teeth: An Excerpt
“I lined my pockets swindling millionaires with a tap of the gavel…”
The Story of My Teeth begins.
Black Lives Matter in South Carolina
South Carolina has always been a battleground of larger, national campaigns for racial justice.
The Outside-Inside Game
A dialogue between two veteran immigrant rights advocates who have watched the movement grow, diversify, and sometimes contradict itself over the past three decades.
Fit for Citizenship? A Photo Essay
Even as America defined itself as a “nation of immigrants,” it sought a more perfect union by engineering the masses at its gateway.
Dangling Man
“What is man?” In his ambitious new book, Mark Greif assures us this is a valid question that we shouldn’t be ashamed to ask.
Chinese Labor Divided
China’s recent uptick in labor unrest has given leftists hope that the world’s largest working class is building a labor movement to match its scale. But Chinese workers are still far from having a national voice.
Tyranny of Democracy
In 1861 Abraham Lincoln, in his first inaugural address, gave a legalistic account of why he must leave slavery untouched. By 1865 he was an impassioned evangelist for freedom. What prompted his dramatic transformation?
The Weimar Mind: A Prehistory of the Surveillance State?
In its account of the intellectual foundations of the Cold War, Udi Greenberg’s The Weimar Century offers an unlikely origin story for our post-9/11 order.
What Happened to the Rock Critic?
Did Robert Christgau, the self-proclaimed “Dean of Rock Critics,” help kill off his own project?
Close Encounters
How can widespread inequality progress alongside widespread concern about its ill effects?
