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Since the 1990s, immigrant and labor activists in Los Angeles have worked together to build a powerful progressive movement.
Fall 2025
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Fantasies of Federalism
Why did the nation-state model win out, when the alternatives were supposedly so compelling?
The People’s Flag is Palest Pink
The popular 2014 film Pride neatly dramatizes how queer–labor solidarity during the miners’ strike pushed back against Margaret Thatcher’s combination of social conservatism and market nihilism.
Seattle’s Left Coast Formula
Will tech billionaires overwhelm the city’s resurgent progressive tradition?
The People vs. Laura Kipnis
“Sledgehammering feminine shame and smearing menstrual blood all over its covenants” isn’t a perfect description of what Kipnis has done with her writing, but it comes close.
Brooklyn Tenants Revolt
The problems of Brooklyn’s gentrifying neighborhoods won’t be solved by a housing-market version of “ethical consumption.” It’s going to take collective action. And a new tenant movement is leading the way.
Yemen’s Women Revolutionaries
In 2011, Tawakkol Karman helped lead the overthrow of dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh—and kickstart a broader struggle for women’s rights. But today, as Houthi rebels threaten to take control, Yemen’s women activists fear their struggle is being sidelined.
De Blasio’s New York
As admirable as de Blasio’s early achievements have been, they have only begun to address the massive problems the majority of New Yorkers face: poverty, unemployment, low wages, exorbitant housing costs, educational failure, and the disproportionate harassment of young men of color.
Women and Islamic Militancy: An Exchange (Online Only)
To read Rafia Zakaria’s original article, click here. To read Zakaria’s reply to Meredith Tax, click here. What Kind of Women’s Empowerment? Why do Muslim girls in the West run away to join ISIS? Rafia Zakaria argues that they are …
Islamism and the Left: An Exchange (Online Only)
With a massive military, political, and media apparatus already doing a fine job turning Islamists into enemies— and corpses—why should the left join the “ideological wars”? A debate.
Islamism and the Left
Most leftists have no difficulty opposing Hindu nationalists, zealous Buddhist monks, and the messianic Zionists of the settler movement. Why won’t they take a firm stance against Islamists?
Solidarity, PA
Facing the threat of bankruptcy, the city of Reading, Pennsylvania is resisting Detroit-like austerity—and instead nurturing worker co-ops along with other “solidarity economy” approaches designed to make businesses, finance, and utilities more democratic.
Introduction: The Promises and Limits of Progressive Cities
To dwell solely on the grim events in Washington is to neglect the more complicated and, potentially, more hopeful reality taking shape in American cities today.
Introducing our Winter issue.
Japan’s Island Problem
How U.S. policy, ancestral wounds, and international law have led to an era of ocean imperialism
The Soapbox Left
The democratic left has always operated on a theory of trickle-up politics. Strikes, protests, and acts of civil disobedience all begin at the bottom—on the shop-floor, in the university, at the town square—and then make their way up. The abolitionists …
