A growing number of states are willing to sell citizenship and the privileges it brings — if you can afford to pay. The lucrative trade in “golden passports” exposes the dark side of capitalist globalization and its unequal valuation of human life. Illustration by...
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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...