A new art project uses the legal system of mineral rights as a means to block oil and gas extraction.
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What does it feel like to imagine the future as climate catastrophe looms?
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A clear understanding of democracy’s first principles makes it easier to assess threats to the system.
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Three short essays from Michael Kazin, Nikhil Pal Singh, and Barbara Ransby.
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As hopes for ambitious climate policy fade, Joe Uehlein, Founding President of the Labor Network for Sustainability, talks about why we must decarbonize the economy while protecting workers.
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Seventy years after the UN Refugee Convention, the United States should refresh its commitment to displaced people.
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Five short essays from Sarah Jones, Dorothy Sue Cobble, Sophie Lewis, Bethany Moreton, and Dorothy Roberts.
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For decades, “common sense” has been a convenient framing for conservative ideas. The label hides a more complicated picture.
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The clash over whether the Trump era represented the rebirth of fascism represents a disagreement about the role of language and history in shaping contemporary political agendas.
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Even as their budgets have climbed upward, police departments have deprived sexual assault units of proportional funding for decades. Today, advocates in Texas are trying to transform the state’s approach to sexual violence.
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Amelia Horgan’s new book, Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism, asks what work is, why it sucks, and what we can do to change it.
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The July 11 protests fused economic and political grievances. A struggle is taking place in Cuba over what happens next.
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As infections from the Delta variant rise, so do concerns among nail salon workers about customers who do not wear masks.
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Adam Curtis’s latest film paints a picture of the world that is so complex, so dense, and so theoretical that the prospect of real change appears nearly impossible.
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Four short essays by Carla Murphy, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Touré F. Reed, and Anika Fassia and Tinselyn Simms.
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Four short essays by Jeet Heer, Samuel Moyn, Jane McAlevey, and Mitchell Cohen.
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In the UK, the left no longer has a party, but it may still have the tools necessary for retaking it—tools that can be improved, remodeled, and reorganized.
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A new right-wing campaign to ban “critical race theory” aims to crack down on teachers who teach honestly about racism. How can teachers protect themselves and their students?
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It is time for educators to go on the offensive against the conservative campaign to ban “critical race theory” from schools.
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Five short essays by Brian Morton, K-Sue Park, Katha Pollitt, Natasha Lennard, and Asad Haider.
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Redlining maps document the deep history of institutional racism in the United States. They also reveal how the federal government managed risk for capital—a role that has perpetuated inequality long after the end of explicit discrimination in the housing market.
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The Turkish government’s crackdown on protests at Boğaziçi University earlier this year has brought together the broadest coalition of AKP opponents since the 2013 Gezi Park protests.
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A conversation about what rising U.S.-China tensions mean for workers and the labor movement in both countries.
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The Biden administration announced that it will accelerate plans to relocate Afghans who worked with the U.S. military. Their situation demands the most urgent response possible.
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In Wong Kar Wai’s movies, nostalgia is the characters’ constant state. In 2046, a sense of imminent loss gives the director’s vision an edge of defiance.
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American media blamed the massive collapse of Albanian pyramid schemes in 1997 on greedy small-time investors unschooled in the free market. It could never happen here.
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A deep-dive into Ravelstein, Saul Bellow’s roman à clef about the Straussian political philosopher Allan Bloom, who achieved late-in-life wealth and fame after publishing his controversial best-seller, The Closing of the American Mind.
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Reflections on what The New Yorker Union won, how they did it, and what other workers can learn from their victory.
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A new documentary finally gives Pauli Murray, the trailblazing feminist and civil rights lawyer who coined the term “Jane Crow,” their due.
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If the Biden administration were serious about helping workers to build power, it would push back against the Republican governors who are ending pandemic unemployment programs early.
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