A Modi Victory Puts India’s 200 Million Muslims in Danger
The Hindu nationalist party ran a hate-filled campaign and now seems poised to return to power with a terrifying mandate.
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As misogyny and white supremacy are making a frightening comeback, conservatives have been emboldened to relitigate basic assumptions about women’s equality.
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Ilhan Omar: ‘There’s a Reason That I Got Elected to Be in Congress and It Has Nothing to Do With the Fact That I’m a Refugee’
On the first episode of our new podcast, Next Left, we talk to the trailblazing politician about how she went from refugee to US Representative.
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At Long Last, Scandal Forces the Resignation of Austria’s Neo-Nazi Vice Chancellor
But it’s no time for celebration—the left is weak, and the cynical center-right chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, may be strengthened by his coalition partner’s disgrace.
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Meet India’s Most Prominent Democratic Socialist
Yogendra Yadav’s coalition of progressive politicians wants to challenge Narendra Modi’s authoritarian rule.
Tekendra Parmar
EU Election Deadlock Is Allowing Demagogues to Flourish in Britain
The most strident voices in the Brexit debate are making themselves heard.
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Europe’s Striking Climate Kids Show How to Defeat the Far Right
Fighting climate change now polls as a top priority among European voters—while most far-right leaders are climate denialists.
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Special Issue: Spring books
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Social Democracy
In her new book, King and the Other America, historian Sylvie Laurent situates the Poor People’s Campaign and Martin Luther King Jr.’s later years in a longer history of black activism and social-democratic thinking.
Robert Greene IIJulius Scott’s Epic About Black Resistance in the Age of Revolution
Modeled after Braudel’s masterpiece on the Mediterranean, The Common Wind helps recovers the radical world of black mariners, rebels, and runaways banding together to realize their freedom.
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee tells the story of Native life as it flourished amidst hardship.
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Jenny Odell and the Quest to Log Off
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Want to Dismantle Capitalism? Abolish the Family
Feminist theorist Sophie Lewis’s new book looks at how rethinking pregnancy and the idea of family as forms of labor is central to emancipatory politics.
Rosemarie Ho
Eurovision’s Muddled DNA
Pop genetics don’t belong in a musical event—or its marketing.
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Listen: What Joe Biden Has in Common With Donald Trump
Harold Meyerson on the candidates, Michael Ames on Bowe Bergdahl, and Laila Lalami on The Other Americans.
May 16, 2019
View: Is New York City’s Public Housing Ready for the Next Storm?
More than six years after Superstorm Sandy, and in an age of increasing climate uncertainty, the city’s public housing facilities are still dangerously vulnerable.
January 29, 2019
