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Passports for an Imagined Nation
Neue Slowenische Kunst (New Slovenian Art), or NSK, was an art collective formed in 1984 by the Slovenian avant-garde band Laibach. Their intent was to play with “past symbols, images, and philosophical ideas, particularly those that have been used by governments or...
Decision Time at DSA
The Democratic Socialists of America’s recent convention in Chicago reflected the challenges of strengthening and expanding a socialist movement rooted in the working class that can effectively fight the genocide in Gaza. DSA will head into Donald Trump’s second year...
What Liberals Don’t Get About the Liberal Order’s Crisis
Liberals often explain today’s disorder as the work of authoritarians or populist agitators. What they miss is that the postwar consensus depended on conservatives, whose defection has left it in crisis. Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres (L) is...
The Long Walk Is a Long Slog
Based on a forgotten Stephen King dystopian novel, The Long Walk wants to be an allegory for America’s grindset mindset mania. But unlike other works in this genre, it fails to deliver a bang and instead ends with a whimper. Still from The Long Walk. (Lionsgate) In...
All of This Because of Political Speech
The University of California’s turning over of dossiers on 160 people under investigation for antisemitism, including Judith Butler, to the Trump administration has strong echoes of McCarthyism. Judith Butler speaking on Zionism at the Jewish Museum on September 15,...
New Poll: Democratic Socialism Is Now Mainstream
A national poll from Jacobin, DSA Fund, and Data for Progress finds broad support for democratic socialist leaders and left-wing policies. Politicians like Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders may be “outsiders” among the political class, but the numbers show that their...
You Aren’t Allowed in These Billionaire Towns
Welcome to the fully privatized city, where the ultrarich can do as they please — no whining from the rabble permitted. Like Starbase and Indian Creek, Forest City, Malaysia, is highly securitized — policed by guards with the authority to kick people out at will and...
Karl Marx Looked Forward to Revolt Against Europe’s Empires
In his new book Karl Marx in America, Andrew Hartman suggests that we are now living through the “fourth boom” of Marxism in the English-speaking world. While such an idea might seem fanciful in terms of social and political movements, if we take it as referring to...
Israel Is Targeting Civilians in Yemen as Well as Gaza
Israel claimed that its bombing of a cabinet meeting in Yemen last month struck a “crushing blow” against the Ansar Allah movement. But the movement’s real leaders were not affected by the strike, and they have vowed to continue their attacks on Israel. Israeli...
Performative Politics Is a Dead End
Canada’s New Democratic Party once rallied workers around a bold social democratic vision. The leadership contest now unfolding shows a center left so busy virtue signaling it forgets how to build power. The Canadian left needs more labor actions like the Air Canada...
Hyundai’s US Auto Plants Are Rife With Labor Abuses
The raids at a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia earlier this month illustrate the impunity of Donald Trump’s brutal immigration crackdown. They also shine a spotlight on Hyundai’s labor practices, including exploitation of vulnerable migrant workers. A worker...