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

Pop-Up Populism It began with a hashtag. The beta version was #fairLand, listed at the head of a document that leaked to the German press in May 2018. Tinkering followed and the movement debuted ...

Don’t Underestimate Backlash In his 1978 book State, Power, Socialism, Greek theorist Nicos Poulantzas argued that power in a capitalist society is not contained forever and ever in specific state ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sarah Leonard and Nancy Fraser Fall 2016 Photo courtesy of Nancy Fraser. Nancy Fraser is a professor of philosophy and politics at The New School for Social Research and one of the most respected ...

Hans Kundnani March 15, 2024 Former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer puts on a kippah as he enters Yad Vashem’s Hall of Remembrance in 2001. (Isaac Harari/Getty Images) In the five months since ...

The Decline of Traditional Commodities Economics since Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo has focused on the production of standardized commodities, available from multiple suppliers, that are ...

Gabriel Winant is assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago. His book The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America is forthcoming from ...

By some measure, the Court’s preoccupation with reining in the authority of the federal government in favor of that of states caused even more harm in NFIB v. Sebelius than it did in Shelby County.

A 2001 IMF report on the pyramid schemes provided both an analysis of speculative bubbles and unintentional insights into the neoliberal logic that shaped Albania and the rest of postcommunist Eastern ...

Labour After Corbyn The party’s new direction under Keir Starmer, a former chief prosecutor who has served under governments of both parties, has enabled Labour to profit quickly from its rivals’ ...