The Living Fraternity of Militants
Jorge Semprún’s work captures a twentieth century of failed revolutions, lost utopias, and historical trauma of a scale that defies repression.
Winter 2025
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My Favorite Mistake
It’s easy to come up with plans for remaking society. It’s much harder to work alongside ordinary people to build coalitions that can change the rules of the game.
The IRA Is an Invitation to Organizers
The Inflation Reduction Act presupposes a private sector–led transition. But battles over its implementation could build the political constituencies and expertise needed to take on the fossil fuel industry.
Climate Still Changes Everything
The U.S. climate movement has largely grown in response to setbacks and defeats. What will it do in the face of an underwhelming victory?
Liberal Commitments
An interview with Michael Walzer on The Struggle for a Decent Politics.
What Socialist Politicians Can Do: An Interview with Nikil Saval
Socialism is rooted in a philosophical optimism that our movement is based in a majority.
Park Socialists
Chicago’s steel mills are forty years gone to brownfields. Most of the union halls are shuttered. Yet the parks, with their fieldhouses and pools and quiet preserves, remain as enduring gifts from social visionaries.
A Living Tradition
To prevent socialism from becoming stale orthodoxy, we need to be alive to changes in the world around us.
We’re All Social Democrats Now
On the left, talk of proletarian revolution has given way to vital debates about how to enact Medicare for All and a Green New Deal, revive unionism, and strip the power of the Supreme Court.
Can DSA Go the Distance?
In a matter of years, DSA has turned from a musty debate club for retired social democrats into an electoral powerhouse of young, ecumenical radicals. What’s next?
Backlash and Bad Vibes
A roundtable on Democrats and the left.
Our Segregation Problem
Throughout the United States, racial separation remains a common feature of collective life. The consequences are significant for left political organizing aimed at building a multiracial working-class majority.
Where Do We Go From Here?
If there’s a chance to make a better world, our best shot comes from building a working-class majority.
Who Are the People?
The politics of the 2010s and 2020s are about who the people are and what it means for them to matter.
Beyond the Blob
An interview with Senator Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy advisor Matt Duss.
