The Left Needs to Resist Anti-Immigrant Initiatives From Within its Ranks The Left Needs to Resist Anti-Immigrant Initiatives From Within its Ranks
David Adler on politics, Pedro Noguera on the LA teachers’ strike, and Kate Aronoff on the battle of ideas.
Jan 17, 2019 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener
Anti-Trump Frenzy Threatens to End Superpower Diplomacy Anti-Trump Frenzy Threatens to End Superpower Diplomacy
Baseless Russiagate allegations continue to risk war with Russia.
Jan 16, 2019 / Stephen F. Cohen
These Hungarian Students Are Fighting for Their Country’s Democracy These Hungarian Students Are Fighting for Their Country’s Democracy
Though Orbán sought to stamp out dissent and free thought in Hungary, he only made us call out to one another in solidarity.
Jan 16, 2019 / StudentNation / Rosa Schwartzburg
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s Insult to Angela Davis Has Boomeranged The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s Insult to Angela Davis Has Boomeranged
Scholars, activists, and grassroots organizers have flocked to her defense, a testament to the growing strength of intersectional solidarity for Palestinian rights.
Jan 15, 2019 / Mairav Zonszein
How the Left Should Respond to Ethnic Cleansing in China How the Left Should Respond to Ethnic Cleansing in China
A million Uighurs are being held in concentration camps in Xinjiang. What can the US do?
Jan 15, 2019 / Daniel Bessner and Isaac Stone Fish
Forgotten France Rises Up Forgotten France Rises Up
France’s Yellow Vests took just one month to challenge policies on taxation, education, transport, and environment—and make the Macron government back down
Jan 15, 2019 / Between Us, We Cover the World / Serge Halimi
The Militarization of the Southern Border Is a Long-Standing American Tradition The Militarization of the Southern Border Is a Long-Standing American Tradition
Trump’s wall is just the latest incarnation of an old fixation.
Jan 14, 2019 / Greg Grandin
Spain’s Radical Right Is Here to Stay—but Did It Ever Leave? Spain’s Radical Right Is Here to Stay—but Did It Ever Leave?
The truth is, Spain was never really an outlier in Europe, its radical right is not really new, and its situation is hard to compare to right-wing populism in other parts of the co...
Jan 10, 2019 / Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer Seguín
Letters From the January 28-February 4, 2019, Issue Letters From the January 28-February 4, 2019, Issue
Fuzzy math… Where there’s smoke… The real George Bush… Thanks, but no thanks (web only)…
Jan 10, 2019 / Letters / Our Readers and Ben Ehrenreich
Eyewitness to the German Revolution Eyewitness to the German Revolution
Victor Klemperer’s dispatches from interwar Germany.
Jan 10, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Peter E. Gordon