The Amazon Labor Union’s Historic Breakthrough
How did a scrappy group of organizers without institutional backing prevail over the second-largest employer in the United States?
Spring 2025
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Who Benefits from the Myth of Pro-War Consensus?
The consensus thesis allows pundits to settle into the comfortable role of brave prophet standing alone against the warmongering tide.
The Xi Era
The seismic shifts in the global world order during Xi’s rule call for new tools for understanding China and the varied lives and views of its inhabitants.
The Carceral Logic of Child Welfare
An interview with Dorothy Roberts, the author of Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World.
Lasting Cruelties
Reign of Terror situates the War on Terror as part of a longer story of domination that can be traced back to the founding of the United States as a settler-colonial and slaveholding behemoth.
Conflict in Twenty-first-Century China
A preview of our Spring 2022 issue.
Baseball’s Labor Wars
MLB owners’ recent lockout was an effort to reverse the gains that players had won over decades of labor struggle. The owners failed.
Rights Without Bounds: An Interview with Wendy Brown
The contemporary right has inherited two seemingly contradictory impulses from the neoliberal era: anti-democratic politics and a libertarian personal ethic.
Portraits on the Wall
In this photograph of Barbara and Beverly Smith of the Combahee River Collective, the framed pictures reflect an endless cascade of black women’s intellectual labor and political action.
The Zealot
Jonathan Franzen’s Midwestern broods, like horsemen of the apocalypse, ride through his books heralding various endings: of eras, of bygone mores, of novels themselves.
Therapy With a Human Face
The feminization of therapy is crucial to understanding how it became both devalued and out of reach.
How Corporations Turned Prison Tablets Into a Predatory Scheme
“Prison iPads” became a lifeline during the pandemic. They also became a new way to squeeze money out of the incarcerated and their families.
The History of Sanctions
Nicholas Mulder’s account of the modern economic sanctions regime sheds new light on an era of extreme destabilization and destruction.
The Seeds of War
Putin sees Russian statehood and Russian national and linguistic identity as inextricably connected, and he is willing to spill Russian and Ukrainian blood to protect this nationalist vision.
Our Ukraine
The Russian invasion has forced peaceful, ordinary people to risk their lives. Many are fighting because they believe in a Ukraine that welcomes all its citizens and recognizes the rights they all possess.
