Who Rules the Rural South?
If we think culture explains voting behavior, we should be talking about a culture of disempowerment and resignation before we talk about a culture of conservatism.
Winter 2026
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Woman, Life, Freedom: The Origins of the Uprising in Iran
The massive protests in Iran, fueled by the audacity of young women and children, are rooted in over a century of struggle.
Masters of None
The White House MasterClass series is a symptom of a moribund political culture in which power transforms a person into a celebrity.
Keith Ellison’s Narrow Victory
Minnesotans voted to reelect the attorney general who prosecuted Derek Chauvin. The result holds important lessons for the Democratic Party on its approach to criminal justice.
The Largest Strike in the History of American Higher Ed
What happens at the University of California will set the standard for a sector that today employs more people than the federal government.
The Forcefield of Solidarity
Daisy Pitkin’s On the Line is one of the best books ever written about American trade unionism.
The Post-American Surreal
In Bliss Montage, Ling Ma seeks to re-enchant a world whose catastrophes have grown monotonously real.
Organizing for the Long Haul
The major question facing DSA in the next few years is whether the organization can build deeper roots in the working class, particularly the labor movement.
Abolition as Method
Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Abolition Geography is written to be used.
Belabored: Courier Class War
Delivery workers from New York and London join the podcast to talk about organizing during the pandemic.
What Socialist Politicians Can Do: An Interview with Nikil Saval
Socialism is rooted in a philosophical optimism that our movement is based in a majority.
Know Your Enemy: Nixon Agonistes
Matt and Sam discuss Garry Wills’s 1970 masterpiece of political reporting and analysis, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man.
Park Socialists
Chicago’s steel mills are forty years gone to brownfields. Most of the union halls are shuttered. Yet the parks, with their fieldhouses and pools and quiet preserves, remain as enduring gifts from social visionaries.
Israel’s Rightward Turn
The backlash against the increasingly vocal demands for recognition and equality on the part of Israel’s Arab citizens has decisively shaped twenty-first-century Israeli politics.
A Living Tradition
To prevent socialism from becoming stale orthodoxy, we need to be alive to changes in the world around us.
