Out of the Ruins
Showing solidarity with the people who live in Israel and in Palestine does not mean shilling for the Israeli government.
Fall 2024
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PowerPoint Politics
To get as many people as possible behind the project of decarbonization, we need to convince them that it can improve their lives.
Why Are You a Socialist?
Rather than a science or a lifestyle, socialism is an approach to the world’s injustices that can compel us to act with one another—even in darker times.
On Ukraine
“A quarterly just can’t keep up,” Irving Howe wrote on November 15, 1989, “but we try.”
The People United
Occupy Wall Street made the student debt crisis into a political issue. Today, debt relief and the idea of free college are more popular than they’ve ever been in the United States.
And a Union
It’s in moments when even the best-case scenario on the table doesn’t get us far enough that socialist ideas are most important.
Do You Enjoy What You Do?
An interview with Sarah Jaffe on labors of love, the women who shut down Woolworth’s, Colin Kaepernick, and why class is not a static identity.
Introduction: Already Sick
A series of short essays on the coronavirus pandemic.
Booked: The Language of Deportation, with Valeria Luiselli
Valeria Luiselli discusses her new book Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions, about her experience translating in a federal immigration court.
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.
Women and Other Art Objects
Rachel Kushner’s The Flamethrowers, in many ways, is about men talking and making art, and about the ways that women experience men’s art, or become the object of it.
May Day! Highlights from the International Labor Movement
Today marks the rallying of the international labor movement. We asked our favorite labor journalists and scholars to pick highlights from the last year of general strikes, minority strikes, walkouts, and international solidarity. Here’s what they chose.
Todd Akin, Julian Assange, and Legitimate Rape
Natasha Lewis: Todd Akin, Julian Assange, and Legitimate Rape
Free Education 
U.S. universities thought their students understood the deal. They would raise tuition fees, and customers (students) would gamely take out ever-increasing loans to pay for them. Protest about the price of education was reserved for those countries still clinging to …
An Aimless 99% Spring
Natasha Lewis: An Aimless 99% Spring
