The Strike is Over but the Fight Continues
Los Angeles teachers showed bargaining for the common good could win. Their next challenge: changing California’s regressive tax policies.
Winter 2025
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Remembering Erik Olin Wright
Wright will be remembered as an iconic thinker who embodied the socialist vision that he worked so hard to bring forth.
Uruguay: The End of the Dream?
In the nearly fifteen years since it took power, the Uruguayan left has enjoyed broad legislative and economic success. But now its momentum may be stalling.
Crisis Cranks
Economists Posner and Weyl’s book Radical Markets attempts to make sense of the current moment and propose a way out, but their unorthodox proposals come up short.
Bisbee’s Ghosts
A forced exodus haunts a border town’s past. Can a new documentary force a reckoning?
Who Counts?
The refugee camp and its inhabitants at Piraeus Port, where Plato set the Republic, evoked a fundamental political quandary: who is included in democracy and who is left out?
The Philanthropy Con
Charity fosters hierarchy, empowers the wealthy, and undermines democracy.
Belabored Podcast #167: L.A. Teachers Shut It Down, with Alex Caputo-Pearl
A report from the picket line.
Cuba Without the Castros
If the Cuban government focuses solely on economic reforms and limits political reform to cosmetic or ineffectual changes, it will be like cast iron: hard but brittle.
Character Limits
Olivia Laing’s novel Crudo is a tragicomic monument to our hyper-atrophied attention spans.
Right Privilege
What do American conservatives believe?
After the Pink Tide
To confront the newly powerful extreme right in Latin America, the left needs a clear-eyed understanding of its time in power.
Introducing the special section of our Winter issue.
L.A. Teachers Prepare to Strike
Here’s what’s at stake.
France’s Yellow Vests: A Test for the Populist Left
With the threat of the far-right looming, transforming the “gilets jaunes” into a viable political force that can defeat Macron, let alone neoliberalism, will be no simple task.
What Socialists Would Do in America—If They Could
“Capitalism is dying,” wrote Michael Harrington forty years ago. “It will not, however, disappear on a given day, or in a given month or even year. Its demise will take place as a historic process that could lead to democratic socialism—or to a new kind of collectivist and authoritarian society.”
