Can We Remake Finance?
We have witnessed the destructive effects of financialization. Can the millions held in bank deposits, corporate equities, and bonds be used instead to provide for society’s most pressing needs?
Spring 2025
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The Struggle Against Autocracy in Asia
An interview with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of The Milk Tea Alliance.
Syria After Assad
Hope has been restored for many Syrians. But vigilance will be needed to ensure that democratic institutions emerge and withstand autocratic impulses.
Our Authoritarian Atrocity
Trump’s goal is blood-and-soil nationalism. The only choice is opposition.
The Dilemmas of Democratic Socialism
To transform the world to more closely align with our principles, we must think and act politically.
Raymond Williams’s Resources for Hope
To be radical requires a theory of how this world, for all its problems, contains and is fostering the beginning of another, very different world.
Know Your Enemy: Why the Right Loves Foreign Dictators
Matt and Sam talk to Jacob Heilbrunn about his new book, America Last: The Right’s Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators.
Parties and Movements
A roundtable discussion on the challenges that left-wing political formations face around the world.
AMLO’s Final Act
The Mexican president has built his durable popularity by combining traditionally left- and right-wing policies and positions.
A Surprise Breakthrough in Guatemala
After months of political battle, Bernardo Arévalo has become the president of Guatemala. His winning campaign was built on attacking the corruption of the institutions that tried to keep him from office.
A Left That Can Do Both
There is no such thing as “the global left”—but we should still talk about it anyway. Introducing our Winter 2024 special section.
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.
The Language of Democracy
In Plain Style, Christopher Lasch showed that we can render even the most iconoclastic demands in common speech.
Can Israel Be a Democracy for All?
It is a mistake to ignore the connection between the attempted judicial coup in Israel and the occupation of the West Bank.
Feminists Against Authoritarianism
Minority rule is a major obstacle to ensuring abortion rights.
