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The New York Times had a decent-enough report yesterday on how the United States made its decision to go war with Iran. Though it’s filled with sharp reporting and detailed accounting, it fails to identify...

Even by his own standards, Donald Trump’s Easter Sunday ultimatum, posted on Truth Social, was shocking for its recklessness and the panic it betrayed — to say nothing of its Islamophobic clash-of-civilizations assumptions. Tuesday will...

Millions of people are now asking chatbots to summarize books, draft emails, and even explain political events to them. But what looks from one perspective like a productivity revolution may also be something more discomfiting:...

In Seward Park in Lower Manhattan on April 4, workers from renowned cocktail bar Attaboy gathered, drifting into a loose semicircle as an ice cream truck jingle played in the background and families enjoying the...

Review of Capitalism: A Global History by Sven Beckert (Penguin Press, 2025) Joseph Schumpeter famously summarized the achievement of capitalism in his 1942 book, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, with the following remark: “Queen Elizabeth owned...

There’s a lot of excitement about and interest in the leftward movement of the Democratic Party base. I think it is very much a real development. The election of Zohran Mamdani, the mass turnout for...

Donald Trump has a very simple explanation for why his political enemies object to his proposed election law, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (otherwise known as the “SAVE America Act” or just the “SAVE...

Review of Backroom Bargaining: Racketeering and Rebellion in New York City’s Labor Unions by Jane LaTour (University of Illinois Press, 2026) My first contact with labor reformers in New York City was nearly fifty years...

Robert LeVertis Bell That is a big question. First, while the state is dominated by the Right, it is important to note that Louisville is a blue city in a red state. I do not...

Donald Trump made an uncharacteristically blunt statement on his priorities last week, inadvertently encapsulating the modern right’s philosophy. “It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all of these individual...

Review of Transcription by Ben Lerner (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026)  Authenticity, performance, the thin line between fact and fiction: these are, by now, the well-known central preoccupations of Ben Lerner’s fiction. His first novel,...

In 2024, the Center for Working-Class Politics (CWCP) and Jacobin published a report summarizing the state of public opinion on a federal jobs guarantee. Looking across nine publicly available polls conducted since 2018, we found...