Graceland
Marilynne Robinson’s latest essay collection What Are We Doing Here? reveals the limits of her restrained metaphysics.
Winter 2025
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Labour’s Missing Brexit Strategy
By choosing to view Brexit merely as a domestic electoral challenge, Labour risks ignoring it as an immediate, real-world test of the party’s democratic and internationalist commitments.
What Comes After the Blue Wave? A Q&A with David Duhalde
Our Revolution’s political director assesses the left’s midterm achievements and discusses the organization’s plan to build a progressive mass movement and transform the Democratic Party.
Beyond the Market: Housing Alternatives from the Grassroots
What would community-owned, democratically controlled housing actually look like? From California to Germany to Uruguay, popular movements offer an inspiring range of answers.
Myths of Maoism
In recounting how a group of politically engaged scholars sought to extend solidarity to East Asia in the 1968 era, a new book falls into many of the same pitfalls as the scholars it profiles.
Belabored Podcast #164: Scott Walker’s Gone, Now What? With Eleni Schirmer
Bye Scott Walker.
The Great Race Panic
White supremacists are seeing the limits of what they can achieve electorally. Now, the raging fear Trump inflames threatens escalating violence.
Stop Eco-Apartheid: The Left’s Challenge in Bolsonaro’s Brazil
The horrors threatened by Brazil’s new president are compounded by a potential war on the Amazon. It is up to the left to build a coalition capable of overcoming it.
Seizing the Initiative
Ballot initiatives led to progressive victories in unlikely places. The left should use them more often.
Hate Was Not a Winning Ticket
Contrary to Trumpian fantasy, noncitizens didn’t get a direct say in the midterms. But their voices still mattered on Election Day.
Time for Another Reinvention
Socialist parties emerged as dynamic, powerful forces at the turn of the twentieth century. After decades of decline, can they revive themselves in the twenty-first?
There Is Power in This Union
The Democrats’ midterm triumphs in Nevada would not have been possible without Culinary Workers Union Local 226.
The Democrats’ Existential Battle: Achieving Real Democracy
To preserve their minority rule, Republicans will keep putting up barriers to voting. The only solution is to deepen democracy.
A New Climate Politics Is on the Ballot
From Florida to Washington, a new generation of progressive candidates and social movements are closing the democratic deficit on climate change.
Zoning for the 1%
The rezoning of northern Manhattan has exposed the failings of New York City’s top-down housing program, which puts the profits of landlords and developers over the rights of tenants.
