Congress is Dead; Long Live Congress
The Indian National Congress won’t be going anywhere — but it’s never been a force for social change.
19127 Articles by: Agathe Dorra
Agathe Dorra is a PhD researcher in political aesthetics at King’s College London
Intellectual History at the New York Times
It’s not just that Thomas Piketty may be right. He’s also handsome.
Deconstructing Paul de Man
A former student of Paul de Man reflects on her mentor’s impenetrable ideas and duplicitous life.
A New War on Speech
Campaigns against Rabab Abdulhadi and other activists are calls for state-sponsored political harassment.
Capitalism and Nazism
The next time someone tells you the Nazis were anti-capitalist, show them this.
The Trial of Cecily McMillan
An Occupy Wall Street activist was assaulted by a police officer. She faces seven years in prison for it.
Dalton Trumbo’s Taxes
On the Hollywood blacklist and Dalton Trumbo’s marginal tax rate.
“Our Own Brand of Socialism”: An Interview with Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez on Fidel Castro, the Soviet Union, and creating “a government which would make the poor happy.”
Fred Ho’s Far-Out, Radical Journey
Fred Ho’s dedication to challenging capitalism$’s logic through art only grew stronger in his final days.
Katha Pollitt’s Quality Control
The nature of a product is irrelevant to how we should theorize, legislate, or organize the labor involved in producing it.
Eleven Things You Didn’t Know About Clarence Thomas
The first time Clarence Thomas went to DC, it was to protest the Vietnam War.
The Comforts of Dystopia
Elites tell us the future is inevitably bright; left curmudgeons insist it’s inevitably gloomy. We don’t win from playing this game.
CORE’s Coming Out Party
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis recounts the creation of her union’s CORE caucus.
Raising Our Expectations
Jane McAlevey challenges the Left to stop lamenting its disappointments in the working class and address our own failures.
The Neoliberal Turn in American Health Care
The failings of the Affordable Care Act are rooted in a long shift away from the idea of a truly universal health care.
Education Is Not the Answer
Everyone deserves a great public education, but better schools alone can’t fight inequality.
Reading Frederick Douglass at Seder
Food is the easy part of the seder. For me, the hard part is making it all mean something.
California Scheming
The University of California’s only response to successful labor organizing is violence and intimidation.
Reviving Labor From Below
The American labor movement won’t be able to revive itself without organizing at its grassroots.
FiveThirtyEight’s Venezuela Problem
When it comes to Venezuela, shoddy data work and simplistic reasoning are too often embraced.