Why Hong Kongers Fight
After weathering decades of disappointment, Hong Kongers understand that there is no tomorrow waiting. The future is not guaranteed, but must be won.
Spring 2025
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The Dignity of Labor
Despite the outpouring of praise for essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, their own interests continue to come second to the broader public’s need for cheap and reliable labor.
Europe: Will This Crisis Be Different?
As the 2008 financial crisis made clear, without major change at the European level, social democratic responses to the coronavirus crisis will be out of reach for many countries across the continent.
Hot & Bothered: A Decade to Win
Kate and Daniel reflect on the lessons of the last few months and the prospects for ecosocialism in this decade.
Abortion After the Pandemic
The status of abortion rights and access in the United States is bleak. But a movement for universal healthcare offers the chance to give reproductive rights material, institutional force.
The End of the Chilean Fantasy
The massive protests in Chile aren’t just about the facts of inequality, but the contempt of the elite—and a democratic transition that fell short of addressing the lasting effects of the dictatorship.
What It Means to Be Liberal
Like all adjectives, “liberal” modifies and complicates the noun it precedes. It determines not who we are but how we are who we are—how we enact our ideological commitments.
What the New MoMA Leaves Out 
The glowing praise for the redesigned MoMA’s embrace of diversity masks deeper historical problems.
How the Criminal Justice System Preys on the Poor
In our financialized era, policing, adjudication, and punishment have been reorganized as resource extraction operations.
Colossus Wears Tweed
A number of recent books blame the rise of neoliberalism on economists. But the evidence suggests it is still capital that rules.
We Need an Insurgent Mass Movement
Trumpian nativism promotes whiteness as the basis for solidarity. Our response must demonstrate how freedom for one depends on freedom for all.
The Left’s Role in the Hong Kong Uprising
An interview with Avery Ng, chairman of the League of Social Democrats in Hong Kong.
Antimonopoly and the Democrats
The antimonopoly tradition once contributed to mobilization, coalition building, and sustained reform across the liberal-left spectrum, and it might do so again today.
Let Them Eat Tech
Tech-oriented solutions to rural poverty and underdevelopment have become hallmarks of Democratic Party policy thinking. We need an alternative that redistributes the wealth generated by the high-tech sector—and recognizes its limits as a development strategy.
The Obamanauts
What is the defining achievement of Barack Obama?
