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What Socialists Would Do in America—If They Could
“Capitalism is dying,” wrote Michael Harrington forty years ago. “It will not, however, disappear on a given day, or in a given month or even year. Its demise will take place as a historic process that could lead to democratic socialism—or to a new kind of collectivist and authoritarian society.”
How Liberalism Failed
After decades of relative stability, Western elites forgot how precious and precarious liberal democracy really is.
The Faces of Eviction
Sociologist Matthew Desmond discusses the scope of the eviction epidemic—and how ordinary people are fighting back.
Growing Up After Genocide
Is it possible to love a torturer—even, or especially, if he is your most intimate relation?
Privacy Settings
Today, we are watched as never before, through surreptitious governmental data collection and through corporate profiles of our desires and habits. Yet we also divulge private matters aggressively, seeking freedom through publicity.
The Island the Left Neglected
If the American left is serious about opposing a reactionary foreign policy that preserves unequal power relations, it should speak up for Taiwan.
The Condition of the Working Class in Shenzhen
While gleaming shopping malls dot the urban landscapes of China, selling Nikes, Coach bags, and Prada shoes, a more authoritarian regime is making it harder for workers to organize or protest their low wages and poor working conditions.
Taking Back the Suburbs
America’s suburbs are no longer the white-picket enclaves of the popular imagination, thanks in large part to the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Yet the pathbreaking law remains far from delivering on its original promise. Can creative new litigation change that?
Graceland
Marilynne Robinson’s latest essay collection What Are We Doing Here? reveals the limits of her restrained metaphysics.
Labour’s Missing Brexit Strategy
By choosing to view Brexit merely as a domestic electoral challenge, Labour risks ignoring it as an immediate, real-world test of the party’s democratic and internationalist commitments.
Beyond the Market: Housing Alternatives from the Grassroots
What would community-owned, democratically controlled housing actually look like? From California to Germany to Uruguay, popular movements offer an inspiring range of answers.
Make China Marxist Again
Under Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party has reembraced Marx. But Xi’s state Marxism is a top-down attempt to unify the population behind a nationalist ideology, not to inspire class struggle.
Adulting While Poor
Forget the avocado toast. Popular narratives about downwardly mobile millennials and their spending habits overlook a key factor in why young people have been hit so hard by today’s housing crisis: class.
Balancing Act
If two recent analyses of populism agree on one thing, it’s that democracy and capitalism have fallen out of balance. Less clear is how—or whether—the truce between them should be restored.
