Who Closes Hospitals?
A series of recent hospital closures points to the limits of the U.S. multi-payer healthcare system. Private provision cannot guarantee public access so long as insurance companies fuel rising costs.
Winter 2025
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Can We Democratize Foreign Policy?
An interview with Stephen Wertheim, Deputy Director of Research and Policy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft—a new anti-militarist foreign policy think tank.
The UK General Election: What Comes after Anti-Politics?
Three years of procedural maneuvering, bombastic rhetoric, and policy paralysis in Parliament—not only on Brexit but on everything else—have produced new depths of distrust in government in the lead-up to the election.
The Left’s Role in the Hong Kong Uprising
An interview with Avery Ng, chairman of the League of Social Democrats in Hong Kong.
Antimonopoly and the Democrats
The antimonopoly tradition once contributed to mobilization, coalition building, and sustained reform across the liberal-left spectrum, and it might do so again today.
Fighting Franco’s Ghosts
Exhuming the dictator’s remains was intended to boost the ruling Socialists’ electoral chances. Instead, the move backfired.
The World Upside Down in Bolivia
Right-wing forces will find it difficult to defeat the indigenous and peasant groups that mobilized during the presidency of Evo Morales.
George Marshall after the American Century
The pragmatic engagement that Marshall believed in required the United States to know its limits but also to honor its values whenever possible.
The GM Strike and the Future of the UAW
“We need to start acting as a class-conscious organization.”
Redlined by Algorithm
A new rule proposed by Trump’s Department of Housing and Urban Development could allow landlords and real-estate brokers to get away with discrimination by blaming it on computer modeling.
Can Democratic Socialism Rise in Rural America?
From New Mexico to Tennessee, organizers are working to put DSA on the map. The work isn’t easy.
The 1989 Revolutions and the Roots of Illiberal Populism
The deep unfairness of the transition from communism in Central and Eastern Europe fed the illiberal populist rebellion across the region today.
On the Origins of the Professional-Managerial Class: An Interview with Barbara Ehrenreich
How do we recognize the similarities between people of different class positions without papering over the differences?
The Abortion Rights Movement Must Rethink Its Strategy
In the face of an aggressive assault by the right, the abortion rights movement should abandon its defensive stance and advocate fully integrating abortion into the country’s healthcare system.
Trump’s Betrayal of Rojava
Turkey’s invasion of northeastern Syria is a terrible blow for the international left.
