Only one in ten American voters want a bigger military budget. Congress keeps approving massive spending increases anyway, as it did when it voted for a nearly $1 trillion military budget last week.Historic increases in military spending like the one authorized by the...
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Trump Wants Puerto Rico to Be the US’s Aircraft Carrier
Donald Trump is aiming to restore US supremacy in the Western hemisphere through presidential will, military power, and emergency authority, unconstrained by Congress or international law — a strategic reorientation that runs through Puerto Rico.In a presidential...
What Zohran Can Learn From the Sewer Socialists
From Milwaukee’s sewer socialists to La Guardia’s New Deal metropolis, urban reformers changed their cities by forging alliances beyond local power.Illustration by Gabe SchneiderSorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
America Can’t Build Homes Anymore
Cities stopped building not by accident but by design. Our housing system is constructed on scarcity, speculation, and private veto power.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
Zohran Mamdani Wants You to Do More Than Survive
Our comrade won because he told New Yorkers they deserve it all — love, leisure, pleasure, sport.Photography by Jack CalifanoSorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
Remembering Red Ken
Ken Livingstone’s legacy in London reminds us just how much democratic socialist leadership can do for a single city.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
Issue 60: Letters + Internet Speaks
Keeping up with our constituents. Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
Issue 60: Dossier
Everything you need to take over your city. Illustration by Rose WongSorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
Politics Is Something We Do
The hard part is over. The harder part is about to start. Illustration by Rose WongSorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
When the Leaning Tower Leaned Left
In the 1970s, the Italian Communist Party was again on the rise in Tuscany. Then it all toppled over. Illustration by Gabe SchneiderSorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
Lost Art
The Geneva Freeport is home to millions of masterpieces you and I will never see. lost-artSorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
The Grass Is Greener
Every game of golf in New York City comes at a cost.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.









