The Battle Over Los Angeles’s Mansion Tax 
The Measure ULA campaign shows how a housing-labor coalition can transform the political landscape, even in the face of staunch special interest reaction.
Winter 2025
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The Battle Over Los Angeles’s Mansion Tax
The Bad Science Behind Trans Medicine Bans
The conservative movement has built its case against gender-affirming care on the authority of anachronistic, faulty clinical research.
A Place to Call Home
Tenant organizers demand that housing be more than just a bare roof over your head, and in doing so they make space for a full life.
A Public Model for Home Insurance
We must reimagine our disaster risk finance system so it reduces exposure and provides protection fairly.
Supply and the Housing Crisis: A Debate
How do we achieve housing for all?
Tolkien Against the Grain
The Lord of the Rings is a book obsessed with ruins, bloodlines, and the divine right of aristocrats. Why are so many on the left able to love it?
The Public We Need
It is hard to call people into a political project that is deeply incompatible with their sense of what it means to act morally in the world.
Noblesse Without Oblige
The super-rich opt out of the social contract by picking and choosing which laws apply to them, whether in offshore tax havens or at home.
Pride and Prejudice
For Arlie Russell Hochschild, understanding why rural voters favor Trump requires coming to grips with the role of emotion in politics.
Tenants on the March: An Interview With Cea Weaver
“Organizing tenants has the potential to shape the political landscape for decades to come.”
Mr. Lonely
Some have suggested that young men are drawn to Andrew Tate because they suffer from a dearth of social contact. Yet men go to Tate not to alleviate loneliness but to intensify it.
A New Suburban Politics
A more capacious suburban politics—beyond the myth of the white, affluent enclave—is fundamental to addressing the problems of racial segregation and economic inequality that shape American life.
The Problem With a Job Guarantee
Building working-class power through full employment is a worthy goal, but there are better strategies for creating and sustaining a tight labor market.
Family Planning
How should we live together and divide our labor?
How Union Democracy Builds Labor’s Strike Power
The UAW’s reform movement brought membership back into the fold, harnessing their energy and forging it into a weapon that could force the companies to bend.
