A People’s Mayor
On June 6, Chokwe Antar Lumumba won 93 percent of the vote to become mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, a city that is 80 percent black, with 31 percent of its population living in poverty, is the capital of a …
Winter 2026
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Left in the Middle
Amid the failures of the Trump administration, the good news is that a left does exist in Red America—and is growing.
Introducing the special section of our Summer issue.
Booked: From Welfare City to Fear City, with Kim Phillips-Fein
Kim Phillips-Fein discusses her new book, Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics, and who killed the social-democratic city.
What Happened to Workers’ Ed?
As organized labor searches for a viable strategy to endure and grow, its limited footholds in American higher education are coming loose.
Like the Weather
In his quietly devastating book Another Day in the Death of America, Gary Younge argues that all Americans, not just the ones who pull the trigger, are complicit in gun violence.
The Elusive Karl Polanyi
Since the Great Recession, Karl Polanyi has become a totem for social democracy. But as a new biography of him suggests, Polanyi himself is an uneasy fit as spokesman for any specific social order.
The Price of Life: From Slavery to Corporate Life Insurance
Coal embodies capitalism’s most telling paradox: that the most lucrative industries are often the most dangerous. And from the days of slavery to the present, corporations have found ways to profit from the resulting deaths.
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.
Don’t Feed the Trolls
Understanding the “alt-right” means spending less time looking to its leaders for ideological coherence and more on understanding how its base exercises power.
Malignant Normality
The participation of American physicians and psychologists in torture during the Iraq War era became part of an American version of “malignant normality”—a phenomenon I first attributed to Nazi doctors during the Holocaust.
The Red and the Rainbow: The Life and Work of Daniel Guérin
An uncompromising champion of the labor movement, sharp critic of authoritarianism both left and right, and early proponent of “intersectionality,” French activist and writer Daniel Guérin is an essential companion to today’s debates on the left.
This Is What We Must Do
Five poems by the late American writer and activist Grace Paley.
Party Crashers: How Far-Right Demagogues Took Over the GOP
Trump’s successful bid to capture the GOP and defeat the uninspiring Democrat nominee on a populist ticket is part of a longer tradition on the right.
Breaking with Capitalist Orthodoxy
Western capitalism has not been functioning well in recent years. But there is nothing inevitable about its collapse. A more innovative, sustainable, and inclusive economic system is necessary.
Duterte Unbound
In the Philippines, the deaths from President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs keep mounting—as does anger among the families of the victims.
