Issue 60: Dossier
Everything you need to take over your city.
519 Article(s) by: Editors
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Issue 60: Letters + Internet Speaks
Keeping up with our constituents.
A Poet in Practice
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.
Stand-In Cities
New York isn’t what it used to be.
Bernie’s Fireside Chats
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.
The Grass Is Greener
Every game of golf in New York City comes at a cost.
Lost Art
The Geneva Freeport is home to millions of masterpieces you and I will never see. lost-art
A Planet of Slums?
Mike Davis may still be right that slums will dominate the cities of the future — but his prediction was at least a decade premature.
The Pharaoh’s Curse
Egypt’s authoritarian president has recreated Cairo in his image, bulldozing ancient tombs, working-class neighborhoods, and the city’s already scarce green space.
Free Reign
Eric Adams’s alleged record as Brooklyn borough president and mayor of New York City would be tough for anyone to top.
Urban Legends
Politicians and thought leaders have spent decades demonizing American cities. urban-legends
Indulgences
Jacobin Finally Gets the Key to the City
Now Who’s the Boss?
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
Sharing the Big Apple
Union co-ops were a source of both affordable housing and displacement for New York’s workers.
Downstate Socialism
New York’s socialist movement found a mid-century standard-bearer in an Italian American congressman from the Bronx.