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

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell June 3, 2025 Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act (PhotoQuest/Getty Images) Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew ...

Muhammad Idrees Ahmad Spring 2025 Syrians search through scattered documents in Sednaya prison for information about people who were disappeared during the Assad era. (Lynsey Addario/Getty Images) In ...

“Amusement under late capitalism is the prolongation of work,” Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer declared in 1944. The mechanization of labor, the Frankfurt theorists thought, had so enmeshed itself ...

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 ...

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 ...

The workers are part of China’s “floating population” of 200 million migrants, at the bottom of what Taiwanese tech entrepreneur Stan Shih calls “the smiling curve.” Controlling the upturned edges of ...

The reality, then, is that presidents and other officials push back against judicial orders with some regularity. In extraordinary moments, “transformative” presidents defy the Supreme Court frontally ...

Nationalists are people who put the interests of their own nation first. Liberal nationalists are people who do that and who, at the same time, recognize the right of other people to do that. And then ...

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 ...