Marxism’s Fatal Flaw
Marx’s social-democratic critics recognized a fundamental point that the great economist missed: that a better world was not inevitable, but achievable, and that their job was to bring that world into being through politics.
Spring 2025
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Trump’s Triangle Fire
The blaze that killed a Trump Tower resident in early April recalls a long of history of developers and corporations putting profit over safety—an ethos that informs not only Trump’s business but his presidency.
Disembowel Enoch Powell
Fifty years ago, British politician Enoch Powell set the template for a racist neoliberal populism that has reached its apotheosis today.
The Assault on Reality
Essential to understanding Trump is his attempt to subject the public to his own solipsistic reality—and thereby destroy our shared basis for democracy.
A Tangle for the Anti-Development Left
Housing debates have long been a mess of ideological contradictions. A far-reaching new bill in California, which would allow for denser construction in areas served by transit, begins to unscramble them.
West Virginia Teachers Walk Out
Walking off the job for the first time in nearly thirty years, West Virginia teachers are channeling the spirit of their state’s historic, militant labor movement.
“Nothing Dollarable Is Ever Safe”
A provision of the GOP tax bill opened parts of Alaska’s majestic Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling. The conservationists who created the refuge could have seen it coming.
The Anxious Pilgrim
A New Left veteran who navigated the streets of 1968 and Henry Kissinger’s Harvard alike, Norman Birnbaum remains a uniquely searching voice of the democratic left.
Remember the Orangeburg Massacre
Too often forgotten, the February 1968 killing of three student protesters by state troopers in Orangeburg, South Carolina marked a turning point in the black freedom struggle.
Honduras: When Does a Presidency Become a Dictatorship?
Facing widespread charges of a stolen election, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández began his second term Saturday with a brutal show of force against protesters. Can the opposition overcome increasingly deadly repression?
What Are We Waiting For?
Seven years after toppling a dictator, thousands of Tunisians are back in the streets—this time over IMF-backed austerity, and a sense that not enough has changed since 2011.
The Forgotten Democratic Socialist Republic of Georgia
In Georgia, unlike in neighboring Russia, the revolutionary wave of 1917–18 yielded an experiment in full-fledged democratic socialism.
Debating the Uses and Abuses of “Neoliberalism”: Forum
Does the term “neoliberalism” clarify our understanding of capitalism today, and efforts to overcome it? Or does it only bring more confusion?
Julia Ott, Mike Konczal, N. D. B. Connolly, and Timothy Shenk respond to Daniel Rodgers.
Unleashing the Military on Mexico’s Drug War
2017 was Mexico’s deadliest year on record—and a new law deepening the military’s role in law enforcement threatens only to make things worse.
Our Fellow Americans
Why calling Puerto Ricans “Americans” will not save them.
