When Black Women Organize
Liberals owe Doug Jones’s win to a rich history of black women’s organizing in the South. When will they really start listening?
Spring 2024
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Nationalize the Networks
The net neutrality repeal shows that it’s not enough to regulate the telecom giants. We need to bring the internet under public control.
What Does Climate Migration Really Look Like?
We meet two Bangladeshi Canadians, who help us parse the little-understood term “climate refugee” and the unequal ways climate change is felt around the world.
Booked: The Ideology of Cheap Stuff
What do Black Friday, chicken nuggets, and Christopher Columbus tell us about the history of capitalism? We ask Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore, authors of the new book A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things.
When Affordable Housing Meets Free-Market Fantasy
Policy wonks left and right have sought to blame the U.S. housing crisis on local zoning regulations. But the evidence tells a different story.
Why Environmentalism Needs Class Politics
In the early 1990s, pathbreaking activist Judi Bari sought to ally forest workers and environmentalists against predatory Wall Street investors. What can we learn from her story today?
The first in a three-part series from Hot & Bothered and our friends at Cited.
When Democracy Isn’t Popular
Trump’s admiration for despots is by now well known. But why do a majority of Filipinos still support President Rodrigo Duterte—even as they fear someone close to them will be killed in his drug war?
Peace on Paper
Division still rules politics in Northern Ireland. But some organizers are working to reach across the walls.
How to Fight White Backlash
What three seminal books by black intellectuals, all published in 1967, can teach us about fighting racism in the Trump era.
Renewables Alone Won’t Save Us
We need to get off fossil fuels as quickly as possible. But we can’t do it without drastically cutting energy consumption for the global rich.
Radical Adaptation
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, New York grassroots groups have charted an inspiring alternative to disaster capitalism.
Borgland
How did a sculptor with neo-Confederate leanings find a home in one of the twentieth century’s most influential liberal salons?
Emmanuel Macron’s Assault on French Democracy
As Emmanuel Macron bypasses French democracy to enact a sweeping pro-business agenda, a new resistance is taking shape.
Why Trump Won Rural America
Almost a year later, pundits are still struggling to understand why Trump won so handily in rural America. The answer lies in the failure of the political system to address, or even acknowledge, small-town economic struggles.
The Ghost in The Ballot Box: Catalonia’s Crisis in Context
Franco’s legacy and the memory of authoritarian rule in Spain loomed over last week’s Catalan independence referendum—a pivotal episode in a century-long conflict.
