Disembowel Enoch Powell
Fifty years ago, British politician Enoch Powell set the template for a racist neoliberal populism that has reached its apotheosis today.
Winter 2025
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The Assault on Reality
Essential to understanding Trump is his attempt to subject the public to his own solipsistic reality—and thereby destroy our shared basis for democracy.
Which Way for Cuba?
As the country prepares for a historic presidential succession, ending the Castros’ nearly sixty-year grip on the highest office, inequality is growing and ordinary Cubans are increasingly disaffected. A report from Havana.
“Nothing Dollarable Is Ever Safe”
A provision of the GOP tax bill opened parts of Alaska’s majestic Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling. The conservationists who created the refuge could have seen it coming.
When the Farce Is Tragedy
Trump’s presidency may not bode the tyranny that many liberals fear. But we shouldn’t let his buffoonishness obscure the real danger that he represents.
“There’s No Population Off the Table”
From court arrests to workplace raids to the targeting of activists, the Trump administration’s message is clear: no immigrant is off limits to the deportation machine.
The Trumpian Personality 
One of the crowning works of the Frankfurt School, The Authoritarian Personality has much to teach us about the age of Trump.
Zombie Neoliberalism
How “There Is No Alternative” gave us Donald Trump.
A Short History of American Empire
Stephen Kinzer is one of the few mainstream voices reminding Americans of our imperial identity. In The True Flag, he takes us back to where he thinks it all began—1898, when the U.S. political class pushed off on the quest for global domination.
The Politics of Comparison
Chris Hayes’s A Colony in a Nation seeks to elevate the Movement for Black Lives by placing it on a par with the American Revolution, but his analysis carries troubling implications.
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?
Peace on Paper
Division still rules politics in Northern Ireland. But some organizers are working to reach across the walls.
How to Fight White Backlash
What three seminal books by black intellectuals, all published in 1967, can teach us about fighting racism in the Trump era.
Them That Has, Gets
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.
Why Trump Won Rural America
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.
