Executive Orders and Smart Lawyers Won’t Save Us

We can’t cede social change to well-meaning experts. Especially in an era of hostile courts, politics, not law, is the only way forward.

The Indigenous Revolution

Standing Rock points the way forward for indigenous people and the Left.

What Bernie Brings to the Table

This Democratic primary could change everything. New York magazine columnist Eric Levitz discusses how Bernie Sanders’s class-struggle candidacy could realign US politics and what roadblocks it will run into.

Here Are the Numbers Bernie Needs to Win

The delegate math looks better than the current media narrative suggests. Bernie Sanders and the movement behind him are still very much in the game. Here are the results he needs to win the nomination.

We Lost the Battle, but We’ll Win the War

The Bernie Sanders campaign fell short. But it assembled a coalition that, if expanded only slightly, can reshape American politics for generations to come.

The Corporate Media Convinced Millions That Bernie Was “Unelectable”

There is overwhelming evidence a surge of mostly older, Trump-fearing voters decided the Democratic primary — and that Bernie Sanders failed to counter an establishment messaging campaign that Trump would beat him in a general election.

Does the Constitution Apply on the Assembly Line?

In the early 1980s, Jon Melrod worked in a Wisconsin auto plant and published a shop-floor newspaper, Fighting Times. When the company sued him and his coworkers for denouncing a “scab of the month” in the paper, the rank and filers fought back — and won.

The John Birch Society Won by Losing

A new book by historian Matthew Dallek traces the John Birch Society’s enduring influence over American politics and reveals how the deep roots of the reactionary right stretch from Congress to the Supreme Court.

Lady Justice

Event: (NYC, 11/28) #OWS, What’s Phase Two?

AUDIO: Occupy Wall Street — Phase II

The Problem With (Sex) Work

The Work of Anti-Work: A Response to Peter Frase

The Big Short, Germany, and Toxic Financial Products

Chatting with the National Review in New York Magazine

First You Get the Money, Then You Get the Power

The Soul of Student Debt

Not quite feudalism, student debt is a peculiarly capitalist form of social control.

Conflict-Averse Liberals

A conflict-averse person is OK; a conflict-averse politics is not.

Against Tipping

So long as the karmic tip jar clouds our perceptions, the insane injustice of an underpaid labor force reimbursed through only the guilty feelings of their coworkers will persist.

Eleven Things You Didn’t Know About Clarence Thomas

The first time Clarence Thomas went to DC, it was to protest the Vietnam War.