When Democracy Isn’t Popular
Trump’s admiration for despots is by now well known. But why do a majority of Filipinos still support President Rodrigo Duterte—even as they fear someone close to them will be killed in his drug war?
Trump’s admiration for despots is by now well known. But why do a majority of Filipinos still support President Rodrigo Duterte—even as they fear someone close to them will be killed in his drug war?
Division still rules politics in Northern Ireland. But some organizers are working to reach across the walls.
What three seminal books by black intellectuals, all published in 1967, can teach us about fighting racism in the Trump era.
There is no starker measure of inequality in the United States than net wealth—and over the last four years, the divide has only grown.
Almost a year later, pundits are still struggling to understand why Trump won so handily in rural America. The answer lies in the failure of the political system to address, or even acknowledge, small-town economic struggles.
Eleven months ago, Javier Flores gathered a few belongings and moved into a Philadelphia church basement to take sanctuary from a looming deportation order. Today, he is free.
Corey Robin talks about the new edition of his book, The Reactionary Mind, and Donald Trump’s conservative pedigree.
A shrewd movement strategist, Fannie Lou Hamer rose from abject poverty to reshape the American political order.
Why the titans of Silicon Valley—long tied to the Democrats—have been warming up to Trumpism.
To transform society, radicals need to appeal to millions of people, many of whom may never join their ranks.
We don’t need to de-politicize Nietzsche to save him from fascist appropriation.
Medicare for All has moved from radical to mainstream in a span of just months. Michael Lighty of National Nurses United joins us to talk about the role of healthcare workers in the fight for single-payer.
Valeria Luiselli discusses her new book Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions, about her experience translating in a federal immigration court.
Trump’s child care plan is another tax giveaway to the wealthy. But the Democrats can offer a better alternative.
We talk to DACA recipients and defenders around the country, from Texas to New York, about Trump’s decision to overturn President Obama’s protections for immigrant youth.