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.
Fall 2025
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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.
A Consistent Approach to Policing
We have written so much about the police in recent months but said too little about what we really want and expect from them.
For a Liberal Socialism
Today’s novel New Deal coalition offers the only plausible chance for progressive reforms.
The Problem of Police Nationalism
Police nationalism is rooted in conservative ideas of law and order, but it has also been sustained by decades of liberal police reform.
Rage Against American Healthcare
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?
How a Campus Protest Galvanized the Turkish Opposition
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.
The Cost of State Surveillance
Surveillance programs are not only damaging to their targets but ineffective in achieving their stated aims.
Labor Needs an Outside Strategy
Only worker power can make good on the promises of the Biden administration.
The Fate of the New Popular Front
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 Political Economy of Racial Inequality
The material causes of racial inequality can be overcome only with massive economic distribution.
A Unified Story for a Divided World
Wars of position that pit race against class are tired.
For Love or Money
The American political infotainment machine has turned the ethics of conviction into a source of profits.
A Friend to the Dissidents
The late Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal said his style was a “defense against politics.” But by collecting and describing the debris of life, he made the everyday seem mythic and earned the affection of the dissident movement.
A Name To Know
A new documentary finally gives Pauli Murray, the trailblazing feminist and civil rights lawyer who coined the term “Jane Crow,” their due.
