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Trump's Predictable Rise

Trump's election isn't cause for reassessing politics as we know it.

by Josh Mound via Jacobin on April 21, 2017

Why Poverty Is Like a Disease

Emerging science is putting the lie to American meritocracy.

by Christian H. Cooper via Nautilus on April 20, 2017

How Tax Policy Created the 1%

For nearly a century, American tax policy has privileged the investor class and advanced the accumulation of white wealth.

by Julia Ott via Dissent on April 18, 2017

How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul

In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.

by Matt Stoller via The Atlantic on October 24, 2016

Why Did White Workers Leave the Democratic Party?

Historian Judith Stein debunks liberal myths about racism, the New Deal, and why the Democrats moved right.

by Judith Stein, Connor Kilpatrick via Jacobin on September 6, 2016

Ross Perot speaking in front of a banner opposing NAFTA.

End of the End of History, Redux

Remember Perot?

by Frank Guan via n+1 on March 24, 2016

The Central American Child Refugee Crisis: Made in U.S.A.

By supporting repressive governments, the U.S. has fueled the violence that has caused tens of thousands of kids to flee north.

by Alexander Main via Dissent on July 30, 2014

We Used to Read Things in This Country

Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.

by Noah McCormack via The Baffler on October 27, 2025

America’s Greatest Mistake

Globalization left millions behind as a policy and transformed the world politically, a new book argues.

by Siddhartha Mahanta via The American Prospect on October 3, 2025

First Houses public housing in New York.

Land Value Politics

What New York City can learn from its past about the potential for urban growth that is not hostage to the preferences of the largest private owners.

by Kim Phillips-Fein, Daniel Wortel-London via Phenomenal World on September 18, 2025

The author and other children picketing the Board of Education in protest of her father's firing.

A General Air of Anxiety

The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

by Joan Wallach Scott via Boston Review on September 10, 2025

Cover of "Born In Flames" book.

Incendiary Schemes

A new book reveals systematic, profitable, and deadly arson schemes perpetrated by landlords and insurance companies in the Bronx.

by Charlotte E. Rosen via Protean on September 7, 2025

A young Donald Trump tosses an apple into the air.

When Trump's Brain Broke

Donald Trump seems stuck in the 80s.

by John Ganz via Unpopular Front on August 21, 2025

Mike Davis

The Marxism of Mike Davis

On the life, influences, and “sophisticated yet lucid brand of Marxism” of the late, great writer.

by Nelson Lichtenstein via Jacobin on July 31, 2025

World Trade Center towers burning on 9/11.

The Righteous Community: Legacies of the War on Terror

A new book traces how "the wet dream of an ageing militarist has become a fundamental force driving American foreign policy."

by Jackson Lears via London Review of Books on July 24, 2025

A former coal miner works at a computer station at the Bit Source LLC office in Pikeville, Kentucky

The Rise and Fall of the Knowledge Worker

Knowledge workers, were supposed to be the beneficiaries of neoliberalism and globalization until AI and a hypercompetitive employment market.

by Vinit Ravishankar, Mostafa Abdou via Jacobin on July 10, 2025

Workers adjust a metal sheet on a Titan missile assembly line.

The Permanent War Economy Doesn’t Benefit Workers

Advocates of “military Keynesianism” present it as a boon for the working class. In reality, it diverts resources away from social provision.

by Hanna Goldberg via Jacobin on June 23, 2025

John Cassidy

John Cassidy on Capitalism and Its Critics

The author on capitalism’s critics, why everyone is so unhappy with the system, and what may come next.

by John Cassidy, James Surowiecki via The Yale Review on May 27, 2025

Chief Justices of the Supreme Court attend President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol on March 4, 2025, in Washington, DC.

The Courts Won’t Save Us

Rather than resisting authoritarianism, the courts have enabled Trump’s rise.

by Samuel Moyn, Daniel Bessner via Jacobin on April 30, 2025

City workers get their lunch at the Horn & Hardart automat in New York City, ca 1940.

Choice and Its Discontents

Today no one on either side of the political spectrum would present themselves as an enemy of choice. Sophia Rosenfeld exposes the complex legacy of this idea.

by Sophia Rosenfeld, Daniel Falcone via Jacobin on April 22, 2025

The “Visscher Map of the New World” including North and South America, 1658.

The Impossibly Intertwined History of the Americas

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book "America, América: A New History of the New World."

by Greg Grandin, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins via The Nation on April 21, 2025

Donald Trump awards the National Medal of Freedom to former Attorney General Edwin Meese.

Trump’s Antisocial State

The administration is trying to neuter the redistributive and protective arms of the state, while exploiting its bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.

by Melinda Cooper via Dissent on March 18, 2025

Zombie hand reaching up from the ground in a graveyard.

The Dead Hand of Clintonism

More than 20 years after Bill Clinton left office, Democrats remain in the grips of his New Democrat politics. That’s a serious problem.

by Lily Geismer via The Nation on February 13, 2025

illustration of stack of books

The Rise and Fall of Liberal Historiography

How historians changed their approach, from the 1960s to the present.

by Gabriel Winant via HNN on February 11, 2025

Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump.

The Beaver and the Eagle: A 200-Year-Old Argument

The left case for an independent Canada.

by Leigh Phillips via Jacobin on February 1, 2025

Jimmy Carter speaking in front of a row of solar panels.

Energy Is Central to American Politics. That All Started with Jimmy Carter.

We have yet to solve the problems that Carter confronted head-on as president.

by Gautama Mehta via Grist on January 9, 2025

How America Invented the Red State

According to conventional wisdom, the last quarter century of elections has proved that most of the country leans conservative. It all started with a map.

by Tarence Ray via The Nation on December 17, 2024

Donald Trump speaks at a rally in July in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

What’s the Matter With the Democrats?

Two new books reveal the shortcomings at the heart of the liberal critique of Trump voters.

by Sean T. Byrnes via Dissent on September 23, 2024

LBJ and his cabinet in Washington, DC (1963).

Two Forms of American Liberalism

Although the American tradition is broadly liberal, it is best understood as divided between two schools: classical and managerial liberalism.

by Matt Wolfson via Law & Liberty on September 18, 2024

Week of Wonders

Twenty-five years ago, protesters shut down the meeting of the World Trade Organization. At the time, it seemed very important. But is it now?

by Doug Henwood via The Baffler on September 5, 2024

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