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This year was a depressing one for politics, but it produced books that were ambitious and serious attempts to understand the present. From novels about millennial ennui to sweeping histories of the West, 2025 had a lot to offer to readers.
The new edition is essential reading to understand the current moment, how we got here, and how the Left should strategize in these difficult times.
Everything you need to take over your city.
Keeping up with our constituents.
Aimé Césaire’s time as the mayor of Martinique’s capital city was characterized by his practical, progressive politics — but also by his poet’s eye for beauty.
New York isn’t what it used to be.
Before there was a YouTube, and even before there was an internet, there was public-access television. Low-budget, talky, unglamorous, and unfiltered, it was the perfect venue for the political rise of none other than Bernie Sanders.
Every game of golf in New York City comes at a cost.
The Geneva Freeport is home to millions of masterpieces you and I will never see. lost-art
Mike Davis may still be right that slums will dominate the cities of the future — but his prediction was at least a decade premature.
Egypt’s authoritarian president has recreated Cairo in his image, bulldozing ancient tombs, working-class neighborhoods, and the city’s already scarce green space.
Eric Adams’s alleged record as Brooklyn borough president and mayor of New York City would be tough for anyone to top.
Politicians and thought leaders have spent decades demonizing American cities. urban-legends
Jacobin Finally Gets the Key to the City
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
Union co-ops were a source of both affordable housing and displacement for New York’s workers.
