The Catastrophe in New York City Jails
The survival of incarcerated people is dependent on slow-moving bureaucrats and the politically calculating whims of sadistic politicians.
Winter 2026
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Hot & Bothered Podcast: Building Power in a Time of Monsters, with Waleed Shahid
On this week’s show, Kate and Daniel talk to Waleed Shahid about how the left can still build a winning coalition for climate justice after the Bernie Sanders campaign.
What It Means to Be Liberal
Like all adjectives, “liberal” modifies and complicates the noun it precedes. It determines not who we are but how we are who we are—how we enact our ideological commitments.
The Pandemic and the Global Economy
Developing countries face collapsing international trade, falling remittances, sharp reversals of capital flows, and currency depreciation. Only bold policies—debt relief, international financing, planning, and more—will avert further catastrophe.
The Pandemic Inside the Only Women’s Maximum-Security Prison in New York
At Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, incarcerated women fear for the elderly and babies among them.
Know Your Enemy #16: The Windbag City, with Marshall Steinbaum
Matt and Sam and are joined by Marshall Steinbaum for a deep dive into the Chicago school of economics and the baleful influence of libertarian ideas.
Elections in a Pandemic: The Crisis Response Should Be Permanent Policy
The best way to keep people safe during this election season is also the best way to maximize participation: give people the widest possible range of opportunities to register and to vote.
When the Home Is a Workplace
In California, new legislation would expand the rules of the Occupational Health and Safety Act to cover all workers—if domestic workers and their allies have their way.
Hot & Bothered Podcast: Why Food Doesn’t Cure Hunger, with Raj Patel
With half of the planet on lockdown, many people around the world have been suddenly confronted with an issue they’re not used to thinking about in political terms: food.
The Sovereign Fed
In terms of crisis governance, the United States is not a country with a central bank. It is a central bank with a country.
The Deepening Unemployment Crisis
Current unemployment numbers now rival the peak during the Great Depression.
Nudging Toward Theocracy: Adrian Vermeule’s War on Liberalism
A generation of thinkers was raised in the orbit of centrist technocracy. As its luster continues to fade, strange new gods will arise in their midst.
The Once and Future Right
The beneficiaries of existing social and economic hierarchies will always fight to maintain them against egalitarian movements for change.
Introducing our Spring 2020 special section, “Know Your Enemy.”
Belabored Podcast #195: Delivering Us from Coronavirus, with Dania Rajendra
The director of Athena joins us to talk about why Amazon workers have been walking off the job.
John Prine’s Poetry of Human Connection
Prine was a friend of those left behind by progress and put down by other people. But his songs were all part of a larger universe where laughter and joy prevailed.
