A Devil We Know
Frightening as it is, Trumpism has many precedents in U.S. history—and the social movements of the last century, from the Southern Tenant Farmers Union to ACT UP, offer important lessons for how to fight it.
Winter 2025
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Left Foot Forward
Building a left strong enough to finally send the zombie of neoliberalism to its grave, while holding off Trumpism with the other hand, is a daunting task. But it’s in the struggle that we know we’re the ones still living.
Fall 2016
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How Tax Havens Make Us Poor
Gabriel Zucman’s The Hidden Wealth of Nations offers a plainspoken explanation of what we are constantly told is “too complicated” for us to understand: the myriad legal loopholes the rich exploit to avoid paying taxes, and why closing them should be a priority for the rest of us.
The Care Deficit
Care work has always divided working- and middle-class women. But by claiming labor rights on their own terms, 1970s domestic worker organizers were able to overcome these barriers and win major reforms. Can their success be repeated?
I’ll Take Care of You Tonight
Emerging alongside the growth of the service industry is a new interest in the literary expression of this kind of labor, with the female worker at its center.
Texas’s New Ground Game
While conservatives tighten their grip on Washington, a network of grassroots organizers in three Texas cities is showing how local progressives can beat the odds. Could their efforts become a national model for opposing Trumpism?
Breaking the Cage
Galvanized by the brutal rape of a young student in 2012, a rising generation of Indian feminists are today arguing that the answer to the country’s public safety dilemma is not to lock women up at home, but to protect their right to take risks.
The World of Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich’s politics developed over many years because she came by them as an artist—which may be what allowed her to become, unusually, both more self-questioning and more combative as she aged.
Liberté, Egalité, Féminisme?
A new generation of minority and Muslim women are taking the lead in the fight against racial profiling, police brutality, mass incarceration, and a general crackdown on civil liberties in France.
Hours for What We Will
Mainstream and social-democratic feminists agree that something must be done to ease “work-family conflict,” but disagree on what. The answer is simpler than we might imagine: universal child care.
Mums Against Austerity in the UK
With evictions, homelessness, and deportations on the rise while social services face cut after cut, women are paying the price for a decade of austerity policies in the United Kingdom. But not all of them are taking it lying down.
Kinetic Joy
In Zadie Smith’s Swing Time, a young woman explores her racial identity through a love of dance—and finds a different kind of history, one that is barely written down.
Returning to Maidan
In the early days, the Maidan protests had been something like a people’s national liberation festival. But by 2014, with war erupting in the east, euphoria and solidarity had been replaced by grief and anger.
Capitalism’s Crisis of Care
In an interview, Nancy Fraser contends with liberal feminism’s troubling convergence with contemporary capitalism, and offers a radically different vision of gender justice.
