Against Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep’s speechifying at the Golden Globes was the worst thing to happen since Trump’s election.
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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.