New Future

The task of this moment is to build a broad front that can resist authoritarianism. The recent protests are early skirmishes in the fight that will be needed.

To understand everything that happens in Latin America in relation to the United States is to brush aside inconvenient details in favor of a morality play.

The late Uruguayan president had an unmatched connection with popular sectors and the courage of his enduring convictions.

Our future rests on our capacity to make digital technology more boring.

An interview with Dara Lind and Omar Jadwat on immigration policy in the second Trump administration.

So long as Cubans’ rage and despair remain, the government cannot afford to curtail emigration. And there is no end in sight.

The political problem of the border arises from a broader crisis of legitimacy of the state.

Sanctuary activists face new challenges under Trump’s second term—but their work has always entailed great personal risk.

An interview with Faye Guenther, president of UFCW Local 3000.

Hope has been restored for many Syrians. But vigilance will be needed to ensure that democratic institutions emerge and withstand autocratic impulses.

Why have some gifts of nature remained free?

From 2020 to 2022, Americans saw the state mobilize immense resources to boost their standard of living—and then witnessed the hard political constraints hemming in this capacity.

By removing checks on borders between European countries while hardening those on the edges of Europe, the EU has redrawn borders along civilizational lines.

We have witnessed the destructive effects of financialization. Can the millions held in bank deposits, corporate equities, and bonds be used instead to provide for society’s most pressing needs?