Unfriendly Terrain
In the Netherlands, the Right is dominating debates on European integration and refugees.
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Assessing Robert Conquest
Historian Robert Conquest was a fierce critic of Stalinist brutality, but Cold War anticommunism hampered his scholarship.
Designing the Soviet Union
Soviet architecture had diverse and ambitious ideas for transforming the spaces people live, work, and travel in.
Ernst Nolte’s Revenge
Conflations of Bolshevism and Nazism are the order of the day. Ernst Nolte would be pleased.
The Soviet Hippies
A look at counterculture behind the Iron Curtain.
Charlie Chaplin in Moscow
Early Soviet filmmakers took great inspiration from Charlie Chaplin, but his critique of mass production put him at odds with them.
Dermokratiya, USA
With rampant talk of Russian interference, it’s worth recounting Washington's role in undermining Russia’s 1996 election.
The Bolsheviks and Antisemitism
Antisemitism was found across the political divide in Russia’s year of revolution.
Left in a Corner
Politically isolated and facing repression, the Russian left is pondering its future.
Gene Sharp, the Cold War Intellectual Whose Ideas Seduced the Left
Gene Sharp has been called the most important American political figure you’ve never heard of. How did a militant Cold Warrior come to wield so much influence in protest movements from Venezuela to the Middle East?
Mike Davis on the Crimes of Socialism and Capitalism
We’ve heard for decades that socialism has a body count. But how does it compare to capitalism? Mike Davis discusses Stalin, Mao, and the staggering holocausts of capitalism’s nineteenth-century heyday.
Closing the Russiagate
With the end of Mueller’s inquiry, our long, national hallucination is finally over. But the damage done by neocons and liberal conspiracy theorists is just beginning.
Get Bernie
Trump’s inauguration set off an unprecedented dirty war from the Washington establishment. A President Sanders would face even worse.
Krystal Ball Is the Anti–Rachel Maddow Bernie Fans Have Been Waiting For
Krystal Ball was once an MSNBC star. Now she’s one of the few mainstream media figures who gets why Bernie Sanders matters and why liberal professionals shouldn’t be allowed to dominate progressive politics.
Getting Gene Sharp Wrong
The legendary nonviolence theorist Gene Sharp wasn’t just a lonely scholar studying how political change happens. He was a Cold War defense intellectual whose ideas left a profound imprint on the way America wields power in the world.
Collusion Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Russiagate looks less like a righteous crusade for truth and justice and more like the typical shenanigans for which the FBI and US security state have long been known: prosecutorial overreach, entrapment, and the criminalization of foreign policy dissent.
Freedom for Boris Kagarlitsky
Boris Kagarlitsky, the Russian Marxist and antiwar critic of Vladimir Putin, is again being held in a brutal detention center on baseless charges. He deserves our solidarity.
Belarus’s Workers Are Going on Strike Against the Election Fraud
In the days after Alexander Lukashenko stole Belarus’s election, the state has unleashed intense repression against all who dared to protest. But now workers from metro drivers to oil refinery employees have gone on strike against Lukashenko’s fraud — a powerful stand for their democratic rights.
The US Agriculture System Is a Disaster for Farmworkers and the Planet
US-style industrial farming has ravaged two of the world’s most fertile regions, California’s Central Valley and the Midwest’s corn belt. But we can build an agriculture system that delivers food in a sustainable way — and empowers farmworkers, too.
The Defeat of Progressive Movements in the Global South Made US Hegemony Possible
Following the Vietnam War, global progressive movements sought to refashion the world in the interests of the majority. The failure of this project, and the subsequent triumph of liberal interventionism, explains the arrogance of the US foreign policy elite.