Israel’s Rightward Turn
The backlash against the increasingly vocal demands for recognition and equality on the part of Israel’s Arab citizens has decisively shaped twenty-first-century Israeli politics.
Winter 2025
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A Living Tradition
To prevent socialism from becoming stale orthodoxy, we need to be alive to changes in the world around us.
Between Flood and Fire
The spread of precarious conditions across the world can lead to despair, but it points to possibilities as well.
My Name for Hope
Democratic socialism offers a vision of a good life—that we can share wealth and power and knowledge, be less selfish and cruel, and let everyone, not just the lucky few, develop their talents.
A Simple Ethos
The implementation of socialism is dauntingly complex, beset on all sides by historical forces and individual corruption. But I’m still a socialist because it is a way to be a human among humans, a person in a society of the people.
We’re All Social Democrats Now
On the left, talk of proletarian revolution has given way to vital debates about how to enact Medicare for All and a Green New Deal, revive unionism, and strip the power of the Supreme Court.
Labor and Freedom
The labor movement is an ongoing fight for our lives and our humanity.
Can DSA Go the Distance?
In a matter of years, DSA has turned from a musty debate club for retired social democrats into an electoral powerhouse of young, ecumenical radicals. What’s next?
Putinism’s Defeated Opposition
In a new collection, Ilya Budraitskis provides a trenchant analysis of the ideological underpinnings of Putin’s Russia and the domestic political groups that have opposed his government.
Backlash and Bad Vibes
A roundtable on Democrats and the left.
A Dose of Rational Optimism
Slouching Towards Utopia is a rise-and-fall epic—but it is better at depicting the rise than explaining the fall.
Our Segregation Problem
Throughout the United States, racial separation remains a common feature of collective life. The consequences are significant for left political organizing aimed at building a multiracial working-class majority.
Why Are You a Socialist?
Rather than a science or a lifestyle, socialism is an approach to the world’s injustices that can compel us to act with one another—even in darker times.
Where Do We Go From Here?
If there’s a chance to make a better world, our best shot comes from building a working-class majority.
The Future Will Be Radical
Will an epochal transformation of the very conditions of human life be carried through by elites on behalf of their own purposes, or will people finally seize control of their destiny?
