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Winter 2026
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Learning from Fannie Lou Hamer
A shrewd movement strategist, Fannie Lou Hamer rose from abject poverty to reshape the American political order.
Trump Disrupts the Valley
Why the titans of Silicon Valley—long tied to the Democrats—have been warming up to Trumpism.
Booked: The Language of Deportation, with Valeria Luiselli
Valeria Luiselli discusses her new book Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions, about her experience translating in a federal immigration court.
A Childcare Agenda for the Left
Trump’s child care plan is another tax giveaway to the wealthy. But the Democrats can offer a better alternative.
Working Too Hard for Too Little: An Interview with Senator Sherrod Brown
“True populism is looking out for the little guy no matter where she works and no matter who he is; we’ve let them steal that away.”
Against Moral Austerity: On the Need for a Christian Left
Secular and religious progressives should work together to reach beyond blue strongholds and forcefully show that moral concerns are not limited to the religious right.
Booked: From Welfare City to Fear City, with Kim Phillips-Fein
Kim Phillips-Fein discusses her new book, Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics, and who killed the social-democratic city.
The New Working Class
Democrats should abandon the specter of the right-wing hard hat, and recognize today’s working class for what it really is.
Democrats Need More Than the Working Class
To win meaningful gains for working people, Democrats first need to win elections with the coalition they have.
Toward a New Economy: Introduction
Almost a decade after the financial crisis, economic debate remains trapped by the stale assumptions that led to the calamity, and the search for alternatives is more urgent than ever.
Introducing the special section of our Spring issue, Capitalism Today.
When Labor Fought for Civil Rights
Two new histories show how the CIO of the 1930s and ’40s led the charge for racial equality not just on the shop floor but at the national level, precipitating the Democratic Party’s embrace of civil rights.
The Lemming Democrats
Why do they keep marching off the same cliff? Instead of one doomed, issueless campaign after another, the Democrats need a new class politics.
Don’t Curse, Organize
Leftists, in and out of social movements, should instead seize the opportunity that Hillary Clinton’s defeat has given them—by transforming the Democratic Party from inside.
Booked: The End of Managerial Liberalism, with K. Sabeel Rahman
K. Sabeel Rahman talks about his new book Democracy against Domination, and why liberals need to recover a language of economic power.
