Who Are the People?
The politics of the 2010s and 2020s are about who the people are and what it means for them to matter.
Spring 2025
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Flood Inc.
The adaptation framework has been used to privatize public services, extract resources, and muster new reserve armies of labor. People, not capital, should determine how to reconfigure their lives in the face of climate change.
Radical Taxation
Taxes demonstrate the legitimacy of democratic control of the economy. This is what conservatives cannot accept—and what surviving climate change will require.
Beyond the Blob
An interview with Senator Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy advisor Matt Duss.
The Lost Art of Looking at Nature
While David Attenborough’s work rarely gives center stage to climate change, his project has always been to shift how humans relate to nature.
Responses to Aziz Rana
Patrick Iber, Adom Getachew, Stephen Wertheim, Aslı Bâli, Susie Linfield, Ramzi Kassem, and Darryl Li respond to “Left Internationalism in the Heart of Empire.”
A Cold Drink of Objectivity
In many accounts of the New York intellectuals, the prolific critic Harold Rosenberg seemed to fall through the cracks. Debra Bricker Balken’s biography reclaims him for the pantheon.
Know Your Enemy: Overturning Roe, Part Three
Conservative intellectuals helped bridge the gap between the religious right and the institutional Republican Party in order to end the right to abortion.
Who Segregated America?
Federal housing policies contributed to the segregation of American cities in the twentieth century. But it was private interests that led the way.
Build a Better Internet
An interview with Ben Tarnoff, the author of Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future.
Lula’s Second Act
If the former Brazilian president returns to office this fall, the countries with the largest economies in the region will all be governed by left-wing leaders for the first time in history.
Night in Hong Kong
If Hong Kongers once hoped they could create their own future, that dream was crushed in June 2020. Deacon Lui’s work is about the uncertainty of how to move forward.
Should We Disrupt the Democratic Party or Take It Over?
As much as organizers might wish for strategic unity, movements are diverse and messy formations that involve both inside and outside politics.
An American History of the Socialist Idea
If there’s a lesson to be derived from Gary Dorrien’s account of American socialism, it’s that the movement’s open participation in and with the broad democratic left benefits the socialist cause.
Emmanuel Macron’s Precarious Hold on France
Ahead of this month’s parliamentary elections, the French left has reemerged as the primary opposition to the president.
