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August 21, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
The Biden Era Will Put the New Left to the Test
Progressives have gotten all they can out of the election season. After November, they will have to raise a ruckus to secure victory.
August 19, 2020
R.E. Hawley
The Lazy Liberalism of Instagram Slideshows
A boom in “instagraphics” indulges the desire to project social-justice values rather than act on them.
August 13, 2020
Magazine
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
Fear of a Black Uprising
Confronting the white pathologies that shape racist policing
August 11, 2020
Apoorva Tadepalli
A Radical Movement to Take Back Our Cities
Protest encampments across the country are forcing questions about housing, public space, and who our neighborhoods are really for.
July 30, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
All Police Can Be Secret Police
Local democratic officials denounce the feds when they act with impunity, but their own police departments use many of the same tactics.
July 28, 2020
Alex Shephard
The Bloody, Manufactured Crisis in Portland
The president is sending federal agents into American cities to instigate violence as a last-ditch effort at political survival.
July 7, 2020
Casey Michel
The Left’s Deafening Silence on China’s Ethnic Cleansing
Anti-imperialist leftists can’t afford to cede this issue to centrist Democrats and the Trumpist right.
July 6, 2020
Kate Aronoff
How Anti-Pipeline Protesters Made the Fossil Fuel Industry Face Economic Reality
Energy companies have abandoned the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
July 6, 2020
Bruce Bartlett
Woodrow Wilson Was Even More Racist Than You Thought
Princeton University could have disassociated itself from the former president a long time ago.
June 30, 2020
Alex Shephard
Uighur Lives Matter
Corporations are bending to popular will over racism and police violence in the U.S. But do they care about China’s ethnic cleansing of Muslims?
June 27, 2020
Matt Ford
America Has a Secret Police Problem
There’s a lot you don’t know about what the cops on your streets are doing—and they aim to keep it that way.
June 25, 2020
Laura Weiss
How America Exports Police Violence Around the World
Confronting the militarized response to protests in the United States requires a reckoning with our foreign policy.
June 21, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
This Is How Trump Plans to Beat Biden
In his latest campaign kickoff rally, the president maps his desperate plan to overcome the national crisis he enabled and win reelection.
June 17, 2020
Libby Watson
The Police Can’t Shake Their Persecution Complex
How much longer will the cops be allowed to tell flamboyant lies about their oppression at the hands of service-sector workers?
June 17, 2020
Libby Watson
The Solution to Police Murder Is Not More Money
Democratic politicians have patiently listened to protesters’ demands and have resolutely vowed to do the opposite.
June 17, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
The Political Power of Protests
How does direct action shape policy?
June 15, 2020
Libby Watson
Trump’s Antifa Derangement Syndrome
The curious case of how a 75-year-old Buffalo man became the leader of a dangerous leftist organization that doesn’t actually exist.
June 13, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Democratic Veepstakes in a Time of Protest
The mass movement seeking justice for George Floyd may not have shifted Biden’s running-mate calculus, but it’s added plenty of complications.
June 12, 2020
Parker Richards
The Fall and Rise of the Guillotine
Ideologues of left and right have learned to stop worrying and love rhetorical violence.
June 11, 2020
Adam Weinstein
America’s Top General Isn’t That Sorry
Mark Milley apologized for his photo op with Trump, but not for the violence he visited on American protesters.
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