The Failure of COP28
The UAE, host to the latest UN climate conference, showcases the vices that need to be vanquished if we’re going to have anything approaching a green society.
Winter 2025
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Dissent in 2023
Our most-read articles this year.
Know Your Enemy: Bomb Power, with Erik Baker
Matt and Sam welcome historian Erik Baker onto the podcast to discuss Garry Wills’s blistering critique of the national security state and unaccountable presidential power in his 2010 book, Bomb Power.
The World That Municipal Socialists Built
Urban socialists blazed a path toward social democracy. Leftists who want to reclaim this tradition face a whole new set of obstacles.
Terrorism Investigations on Campus and the New McCarthyism
Federal law enforcement is under pressure to launch specious terrorism investigations into pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses, based solely on their public statements.
The Dominance of Platform Foods
Pizza, burgers, and tacos are not only delicious, they are essential to how capital shapes our lives.
Who Built the Zones?
Special economic zones are not just a product of the effort to free capitalism from democratic authority. They are a response to a broader anxiety about power imbalance between multinational corporations and national governments.
Know Your Enemy: The Kennedy Imprisonment, with Jeet Heer
A discussion of Garry Wills’s 1982 book on the Kennedy family.
Ending the Coalfield-to-Prison Pipeline
Boosters have promoted prison construction on abandoned mine lands as a tool of economic development throughout Appalachia. New federal funding provides the opportunity for more sustainable and socially beneficial investments.
To Hell With Poverty
In his new book, Matthew Desmond argues that abolishing poverty will require an ambitious moral undertaking.
A New Class Consciousness
For all the friendly feelings toward organized labor in the United States today, a new workers’ movement remains incipient.
When Uber Came to Town
Many urban governments have outsourced public services to private entities. In Washington, D.C., Uber enlisted the city for its own goals.
The Case for a Ceasefire
It is beyond our power to bring back those innocents whose lives have already been lost, but we can work to prevent the calamity that will surely follow if Israel continues to retaliate as it has so far.
The Habitation Economy
The core analytic framework for economists on the left has not changed in nearly a century. We need a new paradigm to make sense of the world we inhabit.
Know Your Enemy: In Search of Anti-Semitism, with John Ganz
John Ganz returns to discuss William F. Buckley Jr.’s 1992 book In Search of Anti-Semitism.
