Out Here It’s 2014
The New Republic was trapped in the year 1954 — and wanted the rest of us to join them there.
19403 Articles by: William G. Martin
William G. Martin teaches at SUNY-Binghamton and is co-author of After Prisons? Freedom, Decarceration, and Justice Disinvestment (2016) and a founding member of Justice and Unity for the Southern Tier; he covers local justice matters at www.justtalk.blog
No More Eric Garners
To end police violence, we must end policing as we know it.
Losing Homelessness in an Excel Sheet
The federal government is using data gimmicks to mask the true scope of homelessness.
Beyond the Welfare State
We must fight for a robust and universal welfare state, but the socialist imagination cannot end there.
Reactionaries in Space
Interstellar celebrates American-style frontier expansion and retrograde masculinity. It’s an ideological monstrosity.
Can We Criticize Foucault?
Late in life, Michel Foucault developed a curious sympathy for neoliberalism.
The Left Can Win
Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias on radical politics and what it takes to build mass movements.
Gender Trouble in France
Historian Camille Robcis on why debates over Judith Butler and gay marriage are engulfing France.
The Personal and the Political
Rolling Stone’s controversial article shows why individual narratives have to be wedded to a wider analysis.
The Problem with Body Cameras
Police body cameras don’t attack the root cause of police brutality: institutional racism.
Don’t Mourn the New Republic
It’s been dead for years.
Wobblies Past and Present
Radical historian Staughton Lynd on the lessons we can draw from the demise of the original IWW.
Capitalism’s Gravediggers
How we define capitalism and think about its development shapes how we struggle to transcend it.
Battling Cartel and State
The movement in Mexico is fighting for an alternative to both drug cartels and neoliberalism.
The German Left’s Palestine Problem
Die Linke’s position on Palestine has isolated it from the global solidarity movement.
New Atheism, Old Empire
The “New Atheists” have gained traction because they give intellectual cover to Western imperialism.
Abolish the Senate
The US Senate is one of the world’s most undemocratic legislatures. It needs to go.
Reds and Greens
The New York gubernatorial race has much to tell us about the future of working-class politics in the US.
Holy America
Neil Meyer on growing up in Detroit and whether the Right’s losing ground in the “culture war.”
The Meaning of Black Friday
When Black Friday devours Thanksgiving, capitalism consumes one of its sustaining myths.