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The Left Needs Free Speech
What gives leftists the space to promote unpopular positions is the respect most Americans give to free speech.
What gives leftists the space to promote unpopular positions is the respect most Americans give to free speech.
Purity is a luxury only the privileged can afford.
Even after a massive redistribution of resources, there will remain a need for an agency with the authority to investigate, restrain, and detain those who insist upon criminally victimizing their neighbors.
Tight-knit communities where residents have access to basic resources and strong local institutions are safer places to live.
We have written so much about the police in recent months but said too little about what we really want and expect from them.
Today’s novel New Deal coalition offers the only plausible chance for progressive reforms.
Police nationalism is rooted in conservative ideas of law and order, but it has also been sustained by decades of liberal police reform.
In the United States, sick patients spend hours coordinating, haggling, and sometimes pleading with the healthcare system. Can these frustrations become a source of radical change?
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.
Surveillance programs are not only damaging to their targets but ineffective in achieving their stated aims.
Only worker power can make good on the promises of the Biden administration.
If the Democratic coalition remains reliant on well-to-do suburbanites reluctant to accept taxes on the rich, the new Popular Front strategy will fall short.
The material causes of racial inequality can be overcome only with massive economic distribution.
Wars of position that pit race against class are tired.
The American political infotainment machine has turned the ethics of conviction into a source of profits.