The Coming Public Education Crisis
A fiscal calamity awaits public schools once pandemic-related federal assistance ends.
Spring 2025
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Structure and Solidarity
Lasting labor victories depend on coordinating diverse strategies and building the relationships to sustain them.
Fighting Fire and Fascism in the American West
Ecological crisis, rural deindustrialization, and real estate speculation have created conditions in which the far right thrives.
Money Power
If we want to move toward a world that meets everyone’s needs, we will need to get serious about the role of money on the left.
The IRA Is an Invitation to Organizers
The Inflation Reduction Act presupposes a private sector–led transition. But battles over its implementation could build the political constituencies and expertise needed to take on the fossil fuel industry.
Climate Still Changes Everything
The U.S. climate movement has largely grown in response to setbacks and defeats. What will it do in the face of an underwhelming victory?
PowerPoint Politics
To get as many people as possible behind the project of decarbonization, we need to convince them that it can improve their lives.
The Language of Democracy
In Plain Style, Christopher Lasch showed that we can render even the most iconoclastic demands in common speech.
Know Your Enemy: Ron DeSantis Wants to Make America Florida, with Gillian Branstetter
On Ron DeSantis’s political aspirations.
Can Movements Stop Politicians From Selling Out?
Grassroots groups can help elected officials resist the pressures of mainstream political culture.
Liberal Commitments
An interview with Michael Walzer on The Struggle for a Decent Politics.
Know Your Enemy: Whittaker Chambers and the Freight Train of History
A discussion on the life and times of Whittaker Chambers, the Communist spy who became a conservative hero.
Know Your Enemy: Realignments, with Timothy Shenk
Timothy Shenk discusses Realigners—“a biography of American democracy told through its majorities, and the people who made them.”
Feminists Against Authoritarianism
Minority rule is a major obstacle to ensuring abortion rights.
How to Revive the Labor Movement
In The Future We Need, Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta argue for extending collective bargaining beyond the workplace.
