What distinguishes Zohran Mamdani's socialism is not its aims. It’s his willingness to take seriously the problem of how to ...

Public Housing: Tenants and Troubles Mike Miller and Carl Werthman Summer 1961 By June 30, 1960, the New York City Housing Authority had become the country’s largest landlord, housing some 567,000 ...

In the castle-like San Francisco Armory, the Internet porn production company Kink.com hosts live-streamed sex parties where unpaid "guests" are invited to perform S&M scenes for the camera. What ...

In the era of global capitalism, imagining the lives of others is a crucial form of solidarity.

The contemporary right has inherited two seemingly contradictory impulses from the neoliberal era: anti-democratic politics and a libertarian personal ethic.

Rafael Khachaturian: People are becoming increasingly aware of the biased nature of the U.S. criminal justice system, but they are probably less aware of how criminal justice practices strip resources ...

At Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, incarcerated women fear for the elderly and babies among them.

For all the friendly feelings toward organized labor in the United States today, a new workers’ movement remains incipient.

The growing militancy of the Republican right is less about an alliance of small business against big business than it is an insurrection of one form of capitalism against another: the private, ...

Dylan’s off-and-on engagement with politics is intriguing. But his peace and justice songs have had a life of their own. Bob Dylan turns seventy today. The following essay is adapted from The 100 ...

Like all adjectives, “liberal” modifies and complicates the noun it precedes. It determines not who we are but how we are who we are—how we enact our ideological commitments.

Alex Press October 22, 2019 Members of the Chicago Teachers Union and SEIU Local 73 march in Chicago in October (SEIU Local 73) “Professional-managerial class” (PMC), a term coined by Barbara and John ...