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Markets Won’t Stop Fossil Fuels

By: Geoff Mann — June 29th 2023 at 12:39

Global climate institutions have embraced the primacy of capital, private firms, and markets—and in so doing have fatally undermined their own efficacy.

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The Geopolitics of Industrial Policy

By: Editors — June 27th 2023 at 14:52

A discussion featuring Yakov Feygin, Daniela Gabor, Ho-fung Hung, Thea Riofrancos, and Quinn Slobodian.

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The Damaged Soul of The Mother and the Whore

By: Charles Taylor — June 23rd 2023 at 14:52

Jean Eustache’s famous elegy for a left-wing generation is, at its heart, reactionary.

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[EVENT | June 26] The Geopolitics of Industrial Policy

By: Editors — June 20th 2023 at 16:05

Can industrial policy be disentangled from rhetoric about a new Cold War? A discussion featuring Yakov Feygin, Daniela Gabor, Ho-fung Hung, Thea Riofrancos, and Quinn Slobodian.

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The Coming Public Education Crisis

By: Justin H. Vassallo — June 20th 2023 at 12:38

A fiscal calamity awaits public schools once pandemic-related federal assistance ends.

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Structure and Solidarity

By: Leo Casey — June 15th 2023 at 12:40

Lasting labor victories depend on coordinating diverse strategies and building the relationships to sustain them.

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The Future of the Labor-Climate Alliance

By: J. Mijin Cha — June 13th 2023 at 12:38

Relying on the private sector to decarbonize is a recipe for abandoning workers.

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Fighting Fire and Fascism in the American West

By: Patrick Bigger — June 8th 2023 at 12:39

Ecological crisis, rural deindustrialization, and real estate speculation have created conditions in which the far right thrives.

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Know Your Enemy: What’s Wrong With Men?

By: Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell — June 6th 2023 at 14:15

Matt and Sam explore the “crisis of masculinity” in America through books on the subject by Senator Josh Hawley and Harvard political theorist Harvey Mansfield.

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Money Power

By: Nina Luo — June 5th 2023 at 16:09

If we want to move toward a world that meets everyone’s needs, we will need to get serious about the role of money on the left.

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The Compassion of Nellie Bly

By: Nicolaus Mills — April 6th 2023 at 16:14

Bly’s 1887 masterpiece Ten Days in a Mad-House reminds us that the ultimate test for public safety programs for the mentally ill is their impact on the most vulnerable.

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Know Your Enemy: Bob Dylan’s America, with Will Epstein

By: Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell — April 5th 2023 at 14:32

In some respects, Dylan’s Philosophy of Modern Song is a quintessentially conservative book. But Dylan’s America never stops moving, reinventing itself, or rebelling against its own strictures.

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Ghosts, Fantasies, and Hope

By: Ellen Willis — April 3rd 2023 at 17:54

For most of my politically conscious life,the idea of social transformation has been the great taboo of American politics. From the smug 1950s to the post-Reagan era, in which a bloodied and cowed left has come to regard a kinder, …

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Spectral Machines

By: Tiana Reid — April 3rd 2023 at 14:18

What happens when the idea of the worker disappears?

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Can Israel Be a Democracy for All?

By: Dov Waxman — March 28th 2023 at 14:39

It is a mistake to ignore the connection between the attempted judicial coup in Israel and the occupation of the West Bank.

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A New Path to Diversity

By: Richard D. Kahlenberg — March 23rd 2023 at 14:19

The Supreme Court is poised to overturn race-based affirmative action. But preferences based on socioeconomic disadvantage—which are both politically popular and legally sound—could produce similarly high levels of diversity.

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Michael Walzer Responds

By: Michael Walzer — March 22nd 2023 at 19:50

I AGREE WITH Jim Rule on the wrongness of Israeli settlement policy. I don’t believe, as he suggests, that ending American support for that policy would reduce hatred for the United States in the Arab and Muslim worlds. People who …

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Liberal Commitments

By: Timothy Shenk — March 21st 2023 at 14:36

An interview with Michael Walzer on The Struggle for a Decent Politics.

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