Drawing on a century-old theory about the inevitability of elite control, billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen champions Silicon Valley as a new ruling class. His worldview revives the reactionary dream of greatness unencumbered by the masses. Venture...
Family abolitionists see the family as the beating heart of capitalist social reproduction. But this view of the family misunderstands both the structure of capitalist reproduction and the complexity of how people survive within it. A family of five watches a...
After many failed attempts to rein in vulture funds, New York lawmakers are trying an obscure medieval legal defense to stop them from profiting off the debt of poor nations. This last resort option faces stiff resistance from Wall Street’s lobbying machine. State...
New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani says New Yorkers “are ready for a new generation of leadership that puts working people first.” Zohran Mamdani speaking in Brooklyn, New York, on May 2, 2025. (Madison Swart / Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images)...
In the author’s own words, the main aim of Hai Fan’s first collection of writing, What the Rainforest Told You, was to “commemorate [my] time in the rainforest, to present stirring sounds and images from back then in tales like those in 1,001 Nights, so people could...
As Zohran Mamdani mounts a surging campaign for NYC mayor, his bid is becoming a model to replicate for the next wave of the US left. Can he expand his appeal to working-class demographics the Left has so far struggled to reach? Zohran Mamdani outside City Hall in New...
Some European states have recently started using more critical language about Israel’s genocidal onslaught against Gaza, rhetorically distancing themselves from the US line. But their ongoing record of complicity speaks louder than their words. Israeli prime minister...
Donald Trump is on the brink of a war with Iran that wouldn’t be good for Israel, the United States, civilians on all sides, or even his own political future. But because of his inability to stand up to Israel, it may not matter. A view of a damaged building in the...
American labor’s finances have never been stronger. And yet its horizons have never been narrower. Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
In the second half of the 20th century, as raising taxes came to spell political suicide, states looked to a new source of revenue: lotteries. Illustration by Richard A. Chance Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber only. Click here to...
Robert Francis Prevost, the first US-born pope, embodies Catholicism’s anti-nationalist ethos. Will he follow Pope Francis in confronting the resurgence of nativism in the US and abroad? Illustration by Richard A. Chance Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber...
University finances are structured to insulate education from the whims of politics — at the expense of students, workers, and the rest of us. Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.