What distinguishes Zohran Mamdani's socialism is not its aims. It’s his willingness to take seriously the problem of how to ...

For the first several decades of its existence, Israel’s democratic deficit could be brushed off as circumstantial. The Jewish state, the story went, lived in a violent neighborhood and had to deal ...

Andrés Pertierra Spring 2025 A boat of Cuban refugees arrives in Key West, Florida, during the Mariel Boatlift. (Tim Chapman/Miami Herald) On April 1, 1980, six Cubans seeking asylum crashed a city ...

Despite all this, Tolkien has many left-wing fans. They can point to his celebration of working-class heroes like Sam Gamgee over the more well-heeled and gentlemanly Frodo, his call for an ethics of ...

Joseph A. McCartin April 1, 2025 Federal workers gather for a rally outside the U.S. Capitol hosted by the American Federation of Government Employees on February 11, 2025. (Kent Nishimura/Getty ...

Wadie E. Said March 14, 2025 Supporters of Mahmoud Khalil in New York City on March 12 (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Though the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil has been widely covered, it still does not cease ...

What Stimulus Can’t Buy China’s slowdown, which started in the early 2010s, was aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet since the end of pandemic lockdowns, the government has been reluctant to roll ...

Ned Resnikoff, Brian Callaci and Sandeep Vaheesan Winter 2025 Construction at a multifamily housing development in Los Angeles (Mario Tama/Getty Images) After decades of relative stagnation, American ...

Just as in 2016, Harris supporters have fallen back on the racism and sexism of American society as an explanation for defeat. No doubt these are hulking obstacles, but they don’t suffice as omnibus ...

Sarah Jaffe Fall 2024 Wages for Housework poster made by Betsy Warrior (Library of Congress) Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care by M.E. O’Brien Pluto Press, 2023, 304 pp.

Class also allowed political economists to extrapolate the long-term trend in inequality from a simple model. Adam Smith, for instance, argued that growth was positively correlated with high wages and ...

Democrats should abandon the specter of the right-wing hard hat, and recognize today’s working class for what it really is. Gabriel Winant ▪ June 27, 2017 New York state nurses at the People's ...