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Jan 31, 2025 · Editors’ Note The New MAGA Coalition. David Austin Walsh. Blood Ties. Jeanne Morefield. Election Chronicles. Robin D. G. Kelley on the only path forward, Mark Schmitt on the new oligarchy’s electioneering, Janice Fine & Benjamin Schlesinger on rebuilding labor, Noura Erakat on the imperial boomerang, and Marshall Steinbaum on the folly of top-down reform

3 days ago · Trump began his second term by signing a spate of executive orders, many echoing directives from his first administration. He promised tariffs on all goods from Canada and Mexico (as Dean Baker wrote about this week) and codified an anti-immigrant “invasion” narrative into law (as Jeanne Morefield scrutinizes). Trump also withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate ...

Jan 13, 2025 · Browse our essays, reviews, and interviews on politics. Donald Trump is back in the White House. Our next issue, Trump’s Return, explores how he got there, what’s next, and how to resist, featuring David Austin Walsh, Robin D. G. Kelley, Noura Erakat, Marshall Steinbaum, Jeanne Morefield, and more. Subscribe now to get this issue, and use code RETURN20 for 20% off.

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Nov 1, 2024 · This note introduces our Fall 2024 issue. We go to press just days before the U.S. presidential election. No matter who wins, the staggering problems with American democracy—the concentration of wealth, the power of large corporations, enormous economic inequality—will remain a challenge.

Donald Trump is back in the White House. Our next issue, Trump’s Return, explores how he got there, what’s next, and how to resist, featuring David Austin Walsh, Robin D. G. Kelley, Noura Erakat, Marshall Steinbaum, Jeanne Morefield, and more. Subscribe now to get this issue, and use code RETURN20 for 20% off.

3 days ago · In his searing 1950 polemic Discourse on Colonialism, Martinican writer Aimé Césaire wrote of the “boomerang effect,” whereby violence in the colonial periphery manifests itself in the colonial metropole. Hitler’s genocide of European Jews, he noted, was modeled after European rule over African and Asian colonies. (He may have had in mind the German extermination of the Nama and Herero ...

Dec 18, 2024 · As much as the past year has been defined by what has changed—the tragic reascent of Donald Trump, a shifting geopolitical order, a climate crisis intensifying by the day—it has also, in many ways, been haunted by what hasn’t: Israel’s ongoing onslaught on Gaza, an abortion landscape decimated by the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the steady forward march of corporate-owned AI.

Explore our writer's guidelines and how to submit. Donald Trump is back in the White House. Our next issue, Trump’s Return, explores how he got there, what’s next, and how to resist, featuring David Austin Walsh, Robin D. G. Kelley, Noura Erakat, Marshall Steinbaum, Jeanne Morefield, and more. Subscribe now to get this issue, and use code RETURN20 for 20% off.