Online gambling operators are no longer selling the promise of luxury but the promise of stability. Through fake Reddit accounts, they peddle stories of groceries bought and rent paid, all supposedly made possible by a lucky break.
DC’s Next Mayor Is a Socialist Ready to Fight Trump
Janeese Lewis George, the democratic socialist who just won DC’s mayoral primary, talks tenants’ rights, gentrification, and what home rule can’t protect against.
Holocaust and Genocide Scholars Are Navigating a Minefield
Since October 7, academic institutions have applied overt and covert pressure to discourage Holocaust and genocide scholars from criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza. Still, many academics are organizing new networks to defend free inquiry.
In Nuestra Tierra, Collective Identity Is Built in Struggle
Lucrecia Martel’s latest film, Nuestra Tierra, the director’s first documentary, juxtaposes the fragility of colonial narratives with the strength of indigenous peoples’ collective identity formed through fighting the dispossession of their land.
Burn the Constitution Once Again
The Constitution didn’t stop Trump — it made his reign possible.
American Freedom Was Built on Endless Conquest
The Founders made expansion the precondition of American freedom. We must find an alternative.
Jonathan Chait’s Atlantic essay claims the Democratic Socialists of America has betrayed the legacy of its founder, Michael Harrington. It gets DSA’s history, and what the organization is today, wrong.
In Defense of the Fourth of July
The Declaration of Independence has been quoted by abolitionists, suffragists, socialists, civil rights activists, and the Black Panthers. Why should conservatives get to own it now?
Zohran Mamdani on the Promise of America
In a speech marking the country’s 250th anniversary, socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani lays out his vision of a United States of America for the many, not the few.
The 250-Year Decline of American Exceptionalism
American exceptionalism has always had an absurd and self-serving character to it. But any pretense justifying it has collapsed in the face of Donald Trump’s cruelty and oligarchic corruption.
The American Revolution Was More Radical Than the Founders Wanted
For generations, historians have downplayed the American Revolution as a squabble between elites. But the revolution unleashed egalitarian forces its architects could neither control nor contain.
Neoliberalism didn’t win an intellectual argument — it won power. Vivek Chibber unpacks how employers and political elites in the 1970s and ’80s turned economic turmoil into an opportunity to reshape society on their terms.
The Founders’ Own Second Thoughts
Even the Founding Fathers had second thoughts about the system they had created.
America’s Empire Is Ending Much Like Spain’s Did
As the US celebrates its 250th, it has begun to resemble the decadent Spanish Empire it replaced: producing nothing while collecting rents, sacrificing its interior to enrich a bloated elite, and embracing exclusionary nationalism to exploit its underclass.
An Independence Day Without Common Sense
Americans have celebrated Thomas Paine’s Common Sense for generations. What gets lost in the fanfare is how common sense is not some eternal repository of political wisdom, but something continually reshaped by democratic debate, argument, and persuasion.
Why Mexico Welcomed Iran’s National Team With Open Arms
After the Trump administration denied visas to the Iranian team, its participation in the 2026 World Cup seemed unlikely. Mexico’s decision to host the players was rooted in its shared struggle for sovereignty in the face of US aggression.