As the third anniversary of Thailand’s 2014 coup approaches, there are few signs of an end to military rule in Thailand. Ironically, it is through the courts—the very sites where repression is codified—that activists are presenting the deepest challenges to military rule.
Under Xi Jinping’s rule, conditions for civil society are worse in China today than they have been for more than two decades. Yet in spite of ratcheted up forms of control, protests continue.
It is tempting to call our new president a fascist, but a fixation on Trump’s authoritarian personality obscures the real menace: the Republican agenda.
For almost twenty-five years, Betsy DeVos has been one of the most dogged political operatives in the movement to privatize public education.
Jan-Werner Müller’s understanding of populism is built on a theory of anti-totalitarianism designed for an enemy that no longer exists.
An illiberal tide is wreaking havoc at both ends of Eurasia. But activists are finding brave and creative ways to push back against authoritarian regimes.
Almost a decade after the financial crisis, economic debate remains trapped by the stale assumptions that led to the calamity, and the search for alternatives is more urgent than ever.
Introducing the special section of our Spring issue, Capitalism Today.
The films about slavery that came out during the Obama years have given us more powerful and nuanced representations of slavery than we have seen before.
Ever since the Umbrella Movement of 2014, pressure from China on Hong Kong has intensified. Now more than ever, activists must join together to defend basic freedoms against the tide of fear and divisiveness creeping over the border.
Today, the term “ghetto” comes across as at best anachronistic, at worst offensive. Does it still have any value?
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From Dolly Parton to J.D. Vance, rags-to-riches stories obscure as much as they inspire, reinforcing the notion that poverty can be solved by dreams and gumption.
Somewhere between the apostles and Joel Osteen, mainstream Christianity turned from a wellspring of egalitarian promise into yet another exponent of the market gospel. Two new books chart where things went wrong.
Why did the ACA—the first substantial expansion of the U.S. welfare state in nearly half a century—fail to win over the constituency it deserved?
Two new histories show how the CIO of the 1930s and ’40s led the charge for racial equality not just on the shop floor but at the national level, precipitating the Democratic Party’s embrace of civil rights.
