What Was the Fascism Debate?
The clash over whether the Trump era represented the rebirth of fascism represents a disagreement about the role of language and history in shaping contemporary political agendas.
Winter 2025
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The Fight to Redefine Safety in Texas
Even as their budgets have climbed upward, police departments have deprived sexual assault units of proportional funding for decades. Today, advocates in Texas are trying to transform the state’s approach to sexual violence.
Adam Curtis’s Theory of Everything
Adam Curtis’s latest film paints a picture of the world that is so complex, so dense, and so theoretical that the prospect of real change appears nearly impossible.
All Work and No Play
Video games, like any creative product, reflect and refract the conditions of their production. Today, what they most resemble is twenty-first-century work.
Digital Corbynism
In the UK, the left no longer has a party, but it may still have the tools necessary for retaking it—tools that can be improved, remodeled, and reorganized.
Multiple Mainstreams
Only public investment will deliver a media that can serve the news needs of our time.
The Race Class Narrative Can Win
The rich and powerful use racism to protect their interests and scapegoat communities of color. But there is an effective way to talk about both race and class when organizing for multiracial democracy.
A Modest Exercise in Freedom
The left is at its most intelligent and most ethical when it believes—and vigorously promotes the belief—that everyone has the right to be heard.
Whose Free Speech?
Free speech, like any freedom struggle, is about power.
A Struggle, Not a Debate
Liberal appeals to truth will not stop fascists.
Social Media’s Sad Passions
The more acceptable it is to denounce people because of their speech, the more likely it is that it will eventually happen to you.
The Left Needs Free Speech
What gives leftists the space to promote unpopular positions is the respect most Americans give to free speech.
The Ethics of Coalition-Building
Purity is a luxury only the privileged can afford.
Why We Need Good Police
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.
A New Model of Public Safety
Tight-knit communities where residents have access to basic resources and strong local institutions are safer places to live.
