A Real Opening
Neoliberal ideas and institutions are still with us, but the political order they constituted is not.
Winter 2025
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Wouldn’t It Be Nice
Whether or not we’re moving toward a post-neoliberal world, the question that matters is if we’ll make a better one.
Jacqueline Rose’s Wild Analysis 
Our ugliest psychological impulses can be a starting point for social criticism.
Yearning for Freedom
In Ming Smith’s photo of Amina and Amiri Baraka, we can see the interdependence of Black art and political struggle.
The Geopolitics of Industrial Policy
Is a new Cold War the price of admission for the return of industrial policy?
Oil and Water
In The Rig, the connections between the workplace dangers of oil drilling and the existential peril of climate change come into chilling focus.
A Web of Hidden Wealth
The ultra-rich depend on a global network of lawyers, accountants, administrators, and other fixers to protect their wealth from taxation.
Homeless in Midtown: The View from Mainchance
The face of homelessness in New York City is changing, but the underlying problem remains the same: the failure to build affordable housing.
Sarah Polley’s Act of Imagination
Women Talking is about the struggle to unearth a language capable of describing profound desires for freedom and safety.
Power Games: How General Electric Exports Privatization
By positioning itself as an expert partner in international climate efforts, GE gains access to developing economies, propping up a system that pushes countries deeper into debt and increases their reliance on unsustainable fuels.
Child Care Is an Organizing Tool
Family-centric programming at worker centers has helped bolster organizing among working mothers—and led to invaluable policy victories.
The Carbon Capture Distraction
The climate left needs to move beyond the question of which technologies are good or bad and focus instead on how we implement them.
Eqbal Ahmad’s Internationalist Vision
For peace advocates in South Asia, Ahmad’s grammar of cooperation provides a much-needed alternative to hypernationalist politics.
Markets Won’t Stop Fossil Fuels
Global climate institutions have embraced the primacy of capital, private firms, and markets—and in so doing have fatally undermined their own efficacy.
The Coming Public Education Crisis
A fiscal calamity awaits public schools once pandemic-related federal assistance ends.
