An interview with Trita Parsi on the “self-fulfilling prophecy” set in motion by Israeli and U.S. attacks and the diplomatic bind Iran now faces.

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MAGA political energy across the country, and yet the most recent Quinnipiac University poll found that 53 percent of ...

In September 1974, at a protest in London, Stuart Hall delivered a speech in support of fellow Caribbean-born radical intellectual Walter Rodney. After being offered a professorship at the University ...

Dangerous Products and People Economic nationalism threatens to fuel racism—and violence.

How neoliberals fell in love with “human nature”—the glue that still unites the divergent factions of the new right.

This essay is part of an Election Chronicle series in our Winter 2025 issue, Trump’s Return. The sheer scale of money in politics is now hard to imagine. Over the last fifteen years, it has ...

Using a variety of ploys to manufacture doubt, a whole industry of science-for-hire experts helps corporations put profits over public health and safety.

A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we must aim at more than restoring its mythical former splendor.

This isn’t the end of the album review completely, just the end of it as we know it. Cooperative ownership is fair and resilient. Seldom do the right conditions arise that allow a worker-owned ...

At a June 2023 assembly of business and community leaders in Chicago, President Biden outlined what has become a central theme of his reelection campaign. “Bidenomics,” the President declared, ...