The Specter of Democracy
A recent New Yorker cartoon is proof that elite liberals still harbor contempt for mass democracy.
19684 Articles by: Elizabeth Mahony
Who Put Trump in the White House?
The Democratic Party has been collapsing for years, but no one noticed before Trump came along.
When Frederick Douglass Met John Brown
What role did Frederick Douglass play in John Brown’s Harpers Ferry raid?
Not Working for Trump
Why feminists are calling for a national women’s strike during Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Stopping Labor’s Backward March
In an age of PR-driven union campaigns, one labor organizer argues it’s time to go back to the basics.
Labor’s Narrow Window
Trump’s anti-worker agenda won’t be implemented overnight. Labor has a narrow window to build its power.
Corbyn, the Unlikely Populist
Jeremy Corbyn could use a dose of populist fire. But if that means playing the Right’s game, it will be as unconvincing as it is unprincipled.
Against Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep’s speechifying at the Golden Globes was the worst thing to happen since Trump’s election.
America’s Durable Monstrosity
New figures show that the US prison population has dropped. But mass incarceration remains firmly intact.
Syria and the Left
Behind the humanitarian disaster of the Syrian civil war is a political crisis the Left urgently needs to understand.
We Could Be Denmark
Workers built Nordic social democracy through class struggle, not ethnic homogeneity. And we can do the same here.
The Slow Collapse of Imperial Republics
Disputes over Trump’s election are just the latest episodes in the slow erosion of trust in the legitimacy of American institutions.
Fascism and the Liberal Imagination
Watch ThinkProgress try to link socialism to fascism, using casual dot-connecting and glib historical analysis.
Charlie Hebdo: The Poverty of Satire
Two years after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, we consider the origin and trajectory of the publication.
When George Wallace Came to Town
Donald Trump’s appeal to some suffering white workers shouldn’t surprise us. George Wallace did the same thing four decades ago.
John Berger (1926–2017)
John Berger’s revolutionary insistence was that our reality could be seen differently, and altered by our intervention.
Megyn Kelly Is Still Terrible
Megyn Kelly’s handful of admirable stances at Fox don’t make up for years of peddling reactionary, racist nonsense.
How to Reverse Journalism’s Decline
American journalism is in dire straits. Is a robust public subsidy the antidote?
Challenging a Giant
How a town dominated by oil interests gave birth to one of the most successful left-wing political insurgencies in the country.
Safety Pins and Swastikas
The frameworks of liberal identity politics and “alt-right” white nationalism are proving curiously compatible.