Between the Lines
A new collection of Elena Ferrante’s correspondence and interviews illuminates how Ferrante pulled away from a male-dominated tradition to define her own genre of popular feminist literature.
Winter 2025
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An Economist’s Case for Open Borders
Amid today’s xenophobic tide, economist Branko Milanovic has made a controversial case for opening the borders—but without offering migrants full rights as citizens. Would such an arrangement reduce inequality, or only exacerbate the problems that have brought us to this point?
Bargaining with Silicon Valley
Gig economy bosses—including the CEOs of both Uber and Lyft—are using a narrative of technological inevitability to undermine labor law and the social safety net.
A Left Vision for Trade
Globalization is not going away, with or without landmark trade deals like the TPP and NAFTA. So how can we make it fairer?
Love’s Labor Earned
How might we compensate women’s emotional labor? Unlike the wife bonus, robust public services would benefit all women.
The Savage Entertainer
To win the country back from the likes of Donald Trump, the left needs to better appreciate the toxic charm of right-wing talk radio personalities like Michael Savage.
Thank God It’s Monday
A start-up turned real estate giant, WeWork has turned co-working into a global industry by selling a lifestyle where work and play are virtually indistinguishable.
Beyond Liberal Internationalism
In embracing the hegemonic role of the United States in the world, defenders of liberal internationalism have left us with a foreign policy of expansive militarism and endless war that is neither liberal nor internationalist.
Introduction: No Retreat
What will the future of work look like? As the writers in this special section show, the answer will have more to do with politics than robots.
The Pain of Others
It is sheer sentimentality to ask photographs to do the work of politics and to make the choices that we cannot.
Toward a Left Foreign Policy: Introduction
The four articles in this section offer thoughtful, albeit contrasting, views about what liberals and radicals ought to say and do about the world outside U.S. borders.
Don’t Curse, Organize
Leftists, in and out of social movements, should instead seize the opportunity that Hillary Clinton’s defeat has given them—by transforming the Democratic Party from inside.
Unequal Pay, Unequal Work 
Ruth Milkman’s Gender, Labor, and Inequality is a story of halting progress for women in the workforce, a march punctuated by setbacks, false starts, and abandonment by purported allies.
The Left That Never Was
In 1998, many North American and European intellectuals hailed the emergence of a new Latin American left when Hugo Chávez ascended to the presidency of Venezuela. When Evo Morales became president of Bolivia in 2006, and Rafael Correa won the …
New World Disorder
Systems of government are scraping against each other like continents grinding at a fault line. The noise they make announces a new world disordered. These clashes are not just because of Vladimir Putin or the new hard-line Chinese leadership of …
