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.
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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.
The Life and Death of Paris’s Red Belt
How discontent over housing, and not workplace struggle, made Paris’s suburbs hotbeds of communism.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
Bernie’s Fireside Chats
Before there was a YouTube, and even before there was an internet, there was public-access television. Low-budget, talky, unglamorous, and unfiltered, it was the perfect venue for the political rise of none other than Bernie Sanders.Sorry, this article is available to...
Stand-In Cities
New York isn’t what it used to be.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
The German Take on Gotham
Fritz Lang’s masterful visual depiction of class stratification in Metropolis remains unrivaled by its would-be inheritors. Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
A Poet in Practice
Aimé Césaire’s time as the mayor of Martinique’s capital city was characterized by his practical, progressive politics — but also by his poet’s eye for beauty.Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
Paint the Town Red
Jacobin contributor Paul Heideman’s reading list on municipal socialism explores how workers’ movements, from Milwaukee to Liverpool, built power at the local level — and how they were defeated. Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to...
The City the Rich Built — and Broke
A new history traces how elite-driven development made New York richer on paper and poorer in practice. Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
Ezra Klein on Abundance and the Left
“When the state can’t deliver, people stop believing in collective solutions altogether.” Sorry, this article is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.