Reeducation camps, mosque monitoring, an extensive network of security checkpoints—these are just a few features of the surveillance apparatus China is developing to police Uyghur Muslims. A report ...
Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ Spring 2024 Art by Tabitha Arnold While we are paying a lot of attention to U.S. conservatives this election year, it is also an auspicious time to publish a ...
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 ...
That the public sector must be massively mobilized in the fight against climate change has long been a bugbear of the right. But the failure to conceive of just how large a role the federal government ...
In The Great Recoil, Paolo Gerbaudo argues that the left needs to speak to people’s fears and connect them to hope. The 2008 financial meltdown and the global economic crisis that followed put ...
The election of Gabriel Boric and the ongoing process to write a new constitution present a historic opportunity for the left to shape a new social pact in Chile. Marcelo Casals ▪ December 22, ...
NYRB Classics, 2019, 120 pp. In the spring of 1968, as an undergraduate at Harvard, I took a course on the English Revolution taught by Michael Walzer, then a young professor in the government ...
History suggests that what you see on the campaign trail, or even in a candidate’s past legislative record, is not necessarily what you get from a president once in power. Bob Master ▪ October ...
117th Congress, 2nd Session, 814 pp. When we imagine what it means to live through a political crisis, most of us probably summon visions of extremity: assassinations and coups, depressions and ...
Calls for unions and activists to transform Wall Street from the inside have proliferated since 2008. But when progressives organize as shareholders, their good intentions inevitably run up against a ...
Lü Pin ▪ February 2, 2022 Peng Shuai serves in a match at the Australian Open tennis championship on Jan. 21, 2020 (Xinhua/Bai Xue via Getty Images) Peng’s case is by far the most explosive of ...
The Fed’s decision to raise interest rates for the fourth time this year threatens to loosen the tightest U.S. labor market in decades. What would it look like if policymakers consolidated workers’ ...