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.
Spring 2025
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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.
Inequality in the Trump Era
The Trump administration didn’t invent the policies that redistribute wealth and income to the top, but it has doubled down on them in characteristically cruel and petty ways.
The Roots of the Right-Wing Coup in Bolivia
The international left must name what has happened in Bolivia for what it is: a popular mobilization against alleged electoral fraud that was sabotaged by the neo-fascist right.
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.
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.
