Samanth Subramanian For decades, there has been a real sense of bewilderment about the way Haldane responded to Lysenko. This is particularly because he famously went on the BBC in the late 1940s and took...
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At the 2019 SXSW conference, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the most recognizable figures in contemporary progressive politics, sat down for an interview with then Intercept senior editor Briahna Joy Gray. In a wide-ranging discussion...
Dawn Simms has been out of work for a year and a half. The Stellantis auto plant where she, her father, and grandfather worked most of their adult years now sits idle, ringed with tall...
Review of Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism by Maurice Isserman (Basic Books, 2024) Few scholarly issues inspire passions as intense as the controversy over the place of the Communist Party (CPUSA) in United States...
The United Kingdom has a welfare benefit called the Winter Fuel Payment (WFP). Despite the name, the payment is not tied to winter fuel. It is just a lump-sum cash benefit paid each winter to individuals...
Every day, my constituents make tough choices. Tough choices like deciding whether to heat their homes or put food on the table. Tough choices like taking out a loan to pay for this month’s rent....
Alex Himelfarb That’s the central question. In the book, I explore a debate I’ve had with a close friend for years: Do we need a total collapse of our systems before we can rebuild, which...
The following article is reprinted from Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy, a publication from the Jacobin Foundation. Right now, you can subscribe to the print edition of Catalyst for just $20. A recent Gallup poll tallied the approval rating of...
Last semester, I did a teach-in at the antiwar encampment at Princeton University. I knew that the media propaganda I’d been seeing about the protests for months was mostly nonsense. Even so, I’ve never felt...
No matter how many decades pass since Karl Marx’s Capital was first published, and no matter how often it is dismissed as outdated, it time and again returns to the center of debate. At a...
Third-shift workers walked out of Boeing’s giant factories at Renton and Everett, Washington, as their contract expired early Friday morning, blasting music and air horns, shooting off fireworks, and waving handmade signs. They immediately formed...
Exceeding the two-thirds required supermajority, Mexico’s Senate has narrowly passed a constitutional reform package championed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). It promises to overhaul the country’s justice system — today among the world’s...
