On the Dole with Ken Loach
Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake shows the cruelties of the UK’s benefits system, but fails to challenge the idea that benefits should only go to the “deserving” poor.
Fall 2025
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Don’t Feed the Trolls
Understanding the “alt-right” means spending less time looking to its leaders for ideological coherence and more on understanding how its base exercises power.
Malignant Normality
The participation of American physicians and psychologists in torture during the Iraq War era became part of an American version of “malignant normality”—a phenomenon I first attributed to Nazi doctors during the Holocaust.
The Red and the Rainbow: The Life and Work of Daniel Guérin
An uncompromising champion of the labor movement, sharp critic of authoritarianism both left and right, and early proponent of “intersectionality,” French activist and writer Daniel Guérin is an essential companion to today’s debates on the left.
This Is What We Must Do
Five poems by the late American writer and activist Grace Paley.
Party Crashers: How Far-Right Demagogues Took Over the GOP
Trump’s successful bid to capture the GOP and defeat the uninspiring Democrat nominee on a populist ticket is part of a longer tradition on the right.
Breaking with Capitalist Orthodoxy
Western capitalism has not been functioning well in recent years. But there is nothing inevitable about its collapse. A more innovative, sustainable, and inclusive economic system is necessary.
Duterte Unbound
In the Philippines, the deaths from President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs keep mounting—as does anger among the families of the victims.
Can Trump Deliver on Growth?
Trump’s economic strategy amounts to little more than a firm determination to drive an old car, at high speed, into a wall.
Scenes from the Front: France’s Front National in Power
Since March 2014, the Front National (FN) has governed eleven French municipalities. The photographs here, from a two-year reporting project on three of these FN cities, offer a glimpse of what a France run by the FN might look like.
The False Promise of Universal Basic Income
Long dismissed as utopian, proposals for a universal basic income are now gaining traction on both the right and the left. But UBI’s supporters on the left should proceed with caution.
A Cautious Case for Economic Nationalism
As long as democratic politics operates through nation-states, it is likely any left program will require some degree of delinking from the global economy.
Japan’s Antiwar Legacy
As Japan’s leadership seeks to restore the country’s right to wage war, a rising student movement is giving the country’s antimilitarist tradition a new life.
The False Economics of Anti-Immigration 
George Borjas argues that a protectionist approach towards immigration would be good for American workers. Economists almost universally disagree.
Court vs. Crown in Thailand
As the third anniversary of Thailand’s 2014 coup approaches, there are few signs of an end to military rule in Thailand. Ironically, it is through the courts—the very sites where repression is codified—that activists are presenting the deepest challenges to military rule.
