The activists fighting against brutal cuts at West Virginia University learned about organizing from their middle and high school teachers.
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An interview with Evgeny Morozov on The Santiago Boys, a podcast about a project inside the Allende government that tried to use cybernetics to manage an economy under assault.
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American officials are debating whether the United States should continue to back the Israeli government. A growing number of Israelis are uninterested in that support.
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The Italian theorist continues to offer important insights for organizers in the socialist lineage.
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In any socialist future worth living in, an abundance of diverse foods would replace the tyranny of monoculture.
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There has long been a gap between stereotypical ideas of women’s empowerment and gendered reality. Barbie explores these contradictions in miniature.
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Introducing a new food column by Arun Gupta.
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Jean Eustache’s famous elegy for a left-wing generation is, at its heart, reactionary.
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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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The activists who took over City Hall have made lasting gains while also confronting the limits of their power in office.
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Rachel Maddow’s podcast tells the story of American Nazis in the 1940s. But the era’s real and lasting authoritarian danger came from the spectacular growth of a national security state.
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Bly’s 1887 masterpiece Ten Days in a Mad-House reminds us that the ultimate test for public safety programs for the mentally ill is their impact on the most vulnerable.
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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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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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The metaverse heralds an age in which hardly anyone still believes that tech firms can actually solve our problems.
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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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Two political prisoners arrested for questioning the Thai monarchy have been on a life-threatening hunger strike for over a week. The government has met their demands for the right to free expression with silence.
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Graduate students won a major raise after five weeks on strike. The victory is a product of the militancy that has pushed the union to the vanguard of organized labor in higher ed.
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The new leader of the British union Unite is meeting workers’ militant mood with a strategy rooted in the workplace.
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The history of the Bund as a party came to an end long ago, but the effects of its cultural and political work live on.
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The Republican Party’s midterm election expectations for South Texas were dashed. But Democrats should still see the results from the region as a wake-up call.
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Minnesotans voted to reelect the attorney general who prosecuted Derek Chauvin. The result holds important lessons for the Democratic Party on its approach to criminal justice.
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What happens at the University of California will set the standard for a sector that today employs more people than the federal government.
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The major question facing DSA in the next few years is whether the organization can build deeper roots in the working class, particularly the labor movement.
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