It Doesn’t Have to Be a War
The Trump administration appears ready to invoke the Defense Production Act to speed manufacture of essential goods like face masks. What if we didn’t have to resort to the analog of war?
Winter 2025
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Liberalism After Rawls, with Katrina Forrester
Katrina Forrester’s In the Shadow of Justice explores the world that shaped the ideas of John Rawls, and how his work remade political philosophy. Is there still room for his liberal egalitarianism in an age of ideological ferment and social conflict?
Health Nativism
Borders are not going to help us fight this virus.
Socialized Love in the Face of Pandemic
Public health is a social and collective imperative.
McDonald’s in the Post–Civil Rights Era, with Marcia Chatelain
An interview with Marcia Chatelain, the author of Franchise—a book about how “stateless people found some comfort in a corporation.”
El primer año del México de AMLO
La llegada de AMLO a la presidencia generó sentimientos de esperanza, entusiasmo y renovación en México. Hoy, hay una creciente inquietud de que su gobierno no es capaz de realizar los cambios que los mexicanos necesitan urgentemente.
How to Build a Winning Coalition, with E.J. Dionne
E.J. Dionne on his new book Code Red and the power of “visionary gradualism.”
Making History at Amazon
If they can disrupt the supply chain, Amazon workers could transform an industry that constitutes one of the commanding heights of the twenty-first-century economy.
State, Bureaucracy, and Rentier Capital
Venezuela is undergoing a rentier-capitalist implosion, made worse by imperial intervention, violent domestic right-wing opposition, and the fusion of the interests of the state and capitalists within the Maduro regime.
The Limits of Chávez’s Communal State
Venezuela’s communal network was supposed to deliver economic and political autonomy. But international commodity markets and the power of the state have undermined these goals.
The Implosion of the Bolivarian Revolution
Because anti-imperialist discourse in Latin America serves short-term political purposes, the latter-day defenders of Chavismo have little interest in studying the political dynamics and concrete geostrategic interests behind really existing empire.
The Ongoing Crisis in Venezuela: A Forum
The reconstruction of the left can only begin with a forthright accounting of where governments that claim to be a part of the left have failed.
Return of the Titans: Succession and the Rebirth of Dynastic Capitalism
Family capitalism remains the dream of millions of wannabe and petty entrepreneurs. In Succession, it’s a seductive nightmare.
The Private Life of Empire
In her new memoir, Hazel Carby uses her family’s history to uncover the intimate side of the British Empire. Reckoning with its legacies will be the only way to move beyond them.
Why Anti-Semitism Is on the Rise in the United States
During the past decade, social media has amplified the voices of white supremacists and anti-Semites, but it is Trump who has lent them legitimacy and emboldened them to come out of the shadows.
