The Miseducation of Betsy DeVos
For almost twenty-five years, Betsy DeVos has been one of the most dogged political operatives in the movement to privatize public education.
Winter 2025
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The Logic of Populism 
Jan-Werner Müller’s understanding of populism is built on a theory of anti-totalitarianism designed for an enemy that no longer exists.
Repression and Resistance in Asia: Introduction
An illiberal tide is wreaking havoc at both ends of Eurasia. But activists are finding brave and creative ways to push back against authoritarian regimes.
Toward a New Economy: Introduction
Almost a decade after the financial crisis, economic debate remains trapped by the stale assumptions that led to the calamity, and the search for alternatives is more urgent than ever.
Introducing the special section of our Spring issue, Capitalism Today.
Slavery on Screen
The films about slavery that came out during the Obama years have given us more powerful and nuanced representations of slavery than we have seen before.
An Umbrella Closes in Hong Kong
Ever since the Umbrella Movement of 2014, pressure from China on Hong Kong has intensified. Now more than ever, activists must join together to defend basic freedoms against the tide of fear and divisiveness creeping over the border.
Winter 2017
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It Takes a Lot of Money to Look This Cheap
From Dolly Parton to J.D. Vance, rags-to-riches stories obscure as much as they inspire, reinforcing the notion that poverty can be solved by dreams and gumption.
The Invisible Hand
Somewhere between the apostles and Joel Osteen, mainstream Christianity turned from a wellspring of egalitarian promise into yet another exponent of the market gospel. Two new books chart where things went wrong.
Who Killed Obamacare?
Why did the ACA—the first substantial expansion of the U.S. welfare state in nearly half a century—fail to win over the constituency it deserved?
When Labor Fought for Civil Rights
Two new histories show how the CIO of the 1930s and ’40s led the charge for racial equality not just on the shop floor but at the national level, precipitating the Democratic Party’s embrace of civil rights.
Indecent Exposures
Oliver Stone’s Hollywood retelling of the Snowden saga ends up depicting surveillance as little more than an inconvenience that might threaten our sex lives.
A Strike Against the New Jim Crow
For black lives to truly matter, we need labor rights for all workers—including prison laborers and those in the drug and sex trades.
Learning from the Rank and File: An Interview with Barbara Madeloni
A conversation with Barbara Madeloni, president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association and a leader in the successful No on Two campaign against charter school expansion, about the lessons from that fight for organized labor in the Trump era.
Learning to Listen
Internationalism, first and foremost, requires a commitment from leftists to listen to our comrades abroad.
