Jean Eustache’s famous elegy for a left-wing generation is, at its heart, reactionary.
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A fiscal calamity awaits public schools once pandemic-related federal assistance ends.
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Relying on the private sector to decarbonize is a recipe for abandoning workers.
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Ecological crisis, rural deindustrialization, and real estate speculation have created conditions in which the far right thrives.
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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.
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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.
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In The Great Escape, Saket Soni recounts how he organized a group of Indian migrant workers to free themselves from a human trafficking scam and hold their captors accountable.
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The ultra-rich depend on a global network of lawyers, accountants, administrators, and other fixers to protect their wealth from taxation.
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Lasting labor victories depend on coordinating diverse strategies and building the relationships to sustain them.
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Recent news reports have revealed that child labor is not just a historical relic in the United States—and some politicians want to undermine existing regulations, claiming that less oversight is good for business.
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In some respects, Dylan’s Philosophy of Modern Song is a quintessentially conservative book. But Dylan’s America never stops moving, reinventing itself, or rebelling against its own strictures.
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What happens when the idea of the worker disappears?
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It is a mistake to ignore the connection between the attempted judicial coup in Israel and the occupation of the West Bank.
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The Supreme Court is poised to overturn race-based affirmative action. But preferences based on socioeconomic disadvantage—which are both politically popular and legally sound—could produce similarly high levels of diversity.
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An interview with Michael Walzer on The Struggle for a Decent Politics.
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A discussion on the life and times of Whittaker Chambers, the Communist spy who became a conservative hero.
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After more than half a century of dependence on Russian oil and gas, the war in Ukraine has forced German officials to reconsider their reliance on fossil fuels entirely.
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If American leftists take seriously their commitment to self-rule and loathing of foreign aggression, they should shed their ambivalence about supporting Ukraine.
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Timothy Shenk discusses Realigners—“a biography of American democracy told through its majorities, and the people who made them.”
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The metaverse heralds an age in which hardly anyone still believes that tech firms can actually solve our problems.
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In recent books, Adolph L. Reed Jr. and Imani Perry offer divergent explanations of Southern inequality.
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An interview with Clara E. Mattei, the author of The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism.
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The government of Guam has appointed a Commission on Decolonization, but U.S. control means that all of the island’s options, including the status quo, have substantial downsides.
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In The Future We Need, Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta argue for extending collective bargaining beyond the workplace.
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Paisley Currah’s Sex Is as Sex Does raises questions about efforts to achieve equal recognition under laws that sanction repression and inequality.
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A new book of poems from a workshop at Attica in the 1970s reveals how prisoners resisted the dehumanizing effects of incarceration.
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After a three-day strike, the New York State Nurses Association announced it had reached tentative agreements with two hospitals that will strengthen safe staffing standards.
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Even in the Roe era, access to abortion was limited, hard-fought, and dependent on local conditions.
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The so-called drag golden age is really a gilded age, where the runaway success of a few is made possible at the expense of the many.
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The Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art offers a place for working-class art without tokenizing or empty gestures of representation.
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