Donald Trump is back in the White House. How did he get there? Why did Democrats fail? And how can we fight back? Essays by David Austin Walsh, Jeanne Morefield, Robin D. G. Kelley, Noura Erakat, Marshall Steinbaum, and others.Plus Gianpaolo Baiocchi on building a workers’ movement, Aaron Bady on the fertility panic, Joelle M. Abi-Rached on the afterlife of political …

Jan 28, 2025 · Browse our essays, reviews, and interviews on politics. 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.

Jan 31, 2025 · Editors’ Note The New MAGA Coalition. David Austin Walsh. Blood Ties. Jeanne Morefield. Election Chronicles. Robin D. G. Kelley on the only path forward, Mark Schmitt on the new oligarchy’s electioneering, Janice Fine & Benjamin Schlesinger on rebuilding labor, Noura Erakat on the imperial boomerang, and Marshall Steinbaum on the folly of top-down reform

5 days ago · Trump began his second term by signing a spate of executive orders, many echoing directives from his first administration. He promised tariffs on all goods from Canada and Mexico (as Dean Baker wrote about this week) and codified an anti-immigrant “invasion” narrative into law (as Jeanne Morefield scrutinizes). Trump also withdrew the United States from the Paris …

Nov 1, 2024 · This note introduces our Fall 2024 issue. We go to press just days before the U.S. presidential election. No matter who wins, the staggering problems with American democracy—the concentration of wealth, the power of large corporations, enormous economic inequality—will remain a challenge.

4 days ago · This note introduces our Winter 2025 issue. Subscribe to get a copy.. Donald Trump is back in the White House. His campaign claims—immigrants are stealing, murdering, and collecting public benefits; the United States is a hapless victim …

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5 days ago · In his searing 1950 polemic Discourse on Colonialism, Martinican writer Aimé Césaire wrote of the “boomerang effect,” whereby violence in the colonial periphery manifests itself in the colonial metropole. Hitler’s genocide of European Jews, he noted, was modeled after European rule over African and Asian colonies. (He may have had in mind the German …

Jul 21, 2024 · The Republican National Convention took place this week in Milwaukee, where Ohio Senator J. D. Vance was named Donald Trump’s running mate, a long-standing call for a federal abortion ban was dropped from the party’s platform, and Teamsters president Sean O’Brien spoke—the first time the head of the prominent union has addressed the RNC.