New Future

In cooperation with gangs and with massive popular support, Nayib Bukele is cracking down on dissidents and massively expanding the state’s carceral apparatus.

As a species, we produce gardeners, devoted caretakers, and also arsonists.

What can we learn about the history of capitalism by following slavery's supply chains?

Progressives will only make lasting progress with Latino voters if they examine not just why Trump was appealing, but also why the left was not.

The scale and depth of the attack on our institutions means that there is no simple way for a pro-democracy coalition to flip the lights back on after Trump. We need transformative thinking.

Flesh and blood alone cannot halt the advance of iron and steel. To stop the tanks, we need people to place blocks on the road and throw sand into the gears.

An interview with Adam Przeworski.

Does Morena’s success offer a blueprint for the left? An exchange.

The Brazilian president once argued that democracy will founder where inequality reigns. Today, he sees fighting inequality as democracy’s animating mission.

Turkey’s slide into authoritarianism was facilitated by collaborators, enablers, and an inept opposition.

Wang Bing’s Youth is an epic work of people’s history writ small.

If we dismiss concepts because of particular examples of misuse, we encourage the repression of discomforting histories and ideas.

The tragic inheritance of the Shoah is that the victims of violence are often its next perpetrators.

Rebuilding government decision-making power requires not just removing veto points, but also addressing the outsized corporate power that gives the wealthy the best access to policymakers.

How does labor organize at scale?

The intertwined relationship between liberalism and socialism offers important lessons for today’s fractious intra-left fights.

Outclassed is a monument to the very elitism it seeks to challenge.

Chicago is attempting to model resistance to Donald Trump’s looming authoritarian military occupation of its streets.

I have hauled a lot of buckets of water across the street, trying to make up for the less than 1.5″ of rain in my rain gauge for all of August. For comparison, my town’s August average is 3.5″, and in the last two years my gauge has seen over 9″ — both prior Augusts following on July floods, whereas this year July barely hit average precipitation.

Whether or not one agrees with Tweed’s definition of religion, his choice to begin his story in ancient Texas toward the end of the last Ice Age in North America, rather than New England or Jamestown in the 1600s, is the first of many refreshing narrative twists about who belongs in American religious history and what should count as religion.