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When we were hired by the United Electrical Workers to spearhead the union drive at Twitter, it seemed the tech industry might finally be bending to progressive pressure. It was early in 2022, a year ...

It is only by examining the birth of the massive law enforcement apparatus built in 9/11’s wake and the climate of fear that ...

Impunity for U.S. atrocities after 9/11 paved the way for rank authoritarianism and forever war—all of it enabled by an imperial Supreme Court.

And then, after Railsea (2012), it was like he was gone. There were still traces: a collection, a couple of novellas, a nonfiction book that presented as fiction and another that didn’t. And in ...

Climate politics are in a very weird place right now. On the one hand, current events would seem to be fertile ground—perhaps more fertile than ever—for generating popular support for climate action.

Nowhere is labor’s invisibility more highly prized than in the production of fiction. On the one hand, writers remain the principal landmarks for navigating the literary landscape, dominating its ...

In late 2024, the world watched with a mix of hope and disbelief as opposition forces in Syria finally toppled Bashar al-Assad, ending more than fifty years of rule by the Assad family. Images of ...

Political judgment takes place within political time. And political time is less a matter of chronology than of genre. What kind of moment are we living through? Is our system of government undergoing ...

In their new book, Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that American liberals have ironically succumbed to a conservative worldview, in the original sense of “conservative.” Instead of ...

This essay is part of an Election Chronicle series in our Winter 2025 issue, Trump’s Return. The year 2014 was a heady moment in the economic policy world. That spring, French economist Thomas Piketty ...