Even when there were figures who almost fit that role—like Thurgood Marshall or Ruth Bader Ginsburg—they couldn’t keep ...

An interview with Osita Nwanevu, author of The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding.

Matt and Sam talk with Daniel Martinez HoSang about the gains the GOP and Trump are making with racial minorities.

During the Second World War, the United States had a centrally planned economy—and the most rapid economic growth in U.S. history. What lessons can we take from the war economy today?

Melvin L. Rogers July 31, 2015 Ta-Nehisi Coates speaking in January (Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Univ. of Michigan) Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me often seems like a ...

Welcome to the main artery into creative or elite work—highly pressurized, poorly recompensed, sometimes exhilarating, more often menial. From the confluence of two grand movements in American history ...

Most leftists have no difficulty opposing Hindu nationalists, zealous Buddhist monks, and the messianic Zionists of the settler movement. Why won't they take a firm stance against Islamists?

The core analytic framework for economists on the left has not changed in nearly a century. We need a new paradigm to make sense of the world we inhabit.

A quarter-century ago, the multilateral system of global economic governance had reached its pinnacle. Today, the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank are experiencing a deep crisis of legitimacy.

For seventy years the disparate “Left” supported, belittled, glamorized, ignored, or attacked Saul Alinsky and his tradition of community organizing. Today, it should embrace community organizing, ...

Neoliberalism has swallowed up too many meanings, making it harder to grasp the socioeconomic forces at loose today—and where viable resistance can be found.

Donald Trump's candidacy may have peaked. But, from the United States to Britain and beyond, the discontent fueling the far right won't fade so quickly. Can a new, left-wing populism seize on it—and ...