Since Trump took office, a growing number of Americans have been willing to “try socialism,” as a DSA hashtag puts it. The 2017 results show that a new generation of socialists is serious about translating this still amorphous interest into lasting power.
One of the crowning works of the Frankfurt School, The Authoritarian Personality has much to teach us about the age of Trump.
An excerpt from Parliament Square, first staged at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester in October 2017.
To effectively counter the threat of authoritarianism posed by today’s crisis of democracy, we need to understand the dynamics that produced it.
Introducing the special section of our Winter 2018 issue.
It’s time to turn the Democrats into a truly democratic party—starting with a grassroots membership base.
“While it is not within my power to outright abolish the standard sentence of fifteen corrective lashes, I can adjust how they are distributed.” A satire about prison conditions in Eritrea.
In The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein unveils how the federal government deliberately promoted housing segregation, deepening racial inequality and violating the Constitutional rights of millions of Americans.
The Supreme Court is quietly gutting one of the United States’ most important civil rights statutes. Only a movement can pressure Congress to act.
Trump’s election has made Lana Del Rey rethink her patriotism, without losing sight of a resilient, youthful Americana—and hope along with it.
They present themselves as a policy vanguard. But think tanks like Brookings have become startlingly backward-looking and incapable of charting a new path for the United States in the twenty-first century.
In The End of Eddy, Édouard Louis uses literature to enliven working-class society in a way that neither sociology nor history can.
The millennial embrace of socialism has allowed a new generation to draw inspiration from a long legacy of struggle.
How “There Is No Alternative” gave us Donald Trump.
The American surveillance state was launched 100 years ago during the First World War, primarily to spy on and indict U.S. citizens who protested the war and the draft.
During the Second World War, the United States had a centrally planned economy—and the most rapid economic growth in U.S. history. What lessons can we take from the war economy today?
