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Fall 2024
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Sweden Turns Inward
Most politicians now nod in agreement with the right’s calls to reduce immigration, deport the undocumented, restructure criminal policy, and prevent further political integration with the European Union. A new nationalist consensus is forming.
Another Defeat for Turkey’s Opposition
In the run-up to last year’s election, there was some hope that a united front could unseat the president. But political divisions, along with significant state repression, thwarted that effort.
Out of the Ruins
Showing solidarity with the people who live in Israel and in Palestine does not mean shilling for the Israeli government.
Terror and the Ethics of Resistance
How we fight is who we are.
Ask a Neoliberal: An Interview with J. Bradford DeLong
In the 1990s, neoliberalism was a kind of utopian program. What remains after the crises of the twenty-first century?
Crime Online
The majority of property crimes now occur online. Our legal system hasn’t caught up.
The Struggle for Meaningful Work
Socially necessary labor should entitle us to respect, decent pay, and safe conditions—not a duty to work relentlessly, without complaint.
The World That Municipal Socialists Built
Urban socialists blazed a path toward social democracy. Leftists who want to reclaim this tradition face a whole new set of obstacles.
Who Built the Zones?
Special economic zones are not just a product of the effort to free capitalism from democratic authority. They are a response to a broader anxiety about power imbalance between multinational corporations and national governments.
To Hell With Poverty
In his new book, Matthew Desmond argues that abolishing poverty will require an ambitious moral undertaking.
A New Class Consciousness
For all the friendly feelings toward organized labor in the United States today, a new workers’ movement remains incipient.
The Habitation Economy
The core analytic framework for economists on the left has not changed in nearly a century. We need a new paradigm to make sense of the world we inhabit.
What I Saw at the Revolution That Didn’t Happen
Memoirs of a Weatherman.
Chipping Away at the Right to Strike
Glacier v. Teamsters was not a crisis averted but another step in the right’s plan to stifle labor power.
