One morning in May, residents of the small French city of Orléans woke up to stickers slapped onto light poles, park benches, and other street furniture. “Muslim-restricted area,” the stickers read — accompanied with crossed-out...
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels famously observed that the “executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.” In describing the “exclusive political sway” that the...
Polls are notoriously fickle things, but recent ones in the New York City mayoral race have been fairly consistent: socialist candidate for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, after ten rounds of ranked-choice voting simulation,...
On June 3, a sixty-year-old maverick candidate from South Korea’s liberal Democratic Party (DPK) won the presidency in a snap election following a botched coup six months earlier by former president Yoon Suk-yeol. On the...
The storylines in Slumlord Millionaire, the documentary about the struggle of New York City tenants and homeowners confronting predatory real estate interests’ fast-gentrifying neighborhoods that is opening in theaters in New York today, are disturbing....
Reports about the daily drama of the second Trump administration often feel less like normal political news than recaps of a reality TV show. This is an administration where the actual official name of the...
The Senate is now working on its version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the GOP megabill that the House of Representatives passed late last month. The final product will likely differ from the...
When I came to the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) in 1998, not long after John Sweeney was elected president, the enthusiasm and hope around organizing was contagious. I’d spent...
The subreddit r/InformedWarriorRides offers an entertaining snapshot of the modern liberal bumper-sticker scene. It’s changed a lot since 2003, when I personally had my young liberal mind blown by bangers like “Homeland Security: Fighting Terrorism...
“The more clearly we see into the future, the better will we employ our energy in the present.”— Karl Kautsky, The Erfurt Program (1891) “Exclude the idea of futurity, and forthwith the very notion of what...
Review of The Great Retreat: How the Decline of Political Parties Is Undermining American Democracy by Didi Kuo (Oxford University Press, 2025). For decades after World War II, political scientists, reform-minded politicians, and pundits lamented...
Max Chandler-Mather Well, we’re certainly not going to take advice from a political commentariat who would rather the Greens disappear altogether. I think the first question is: How do we build a political movement that...
