Culture

Frustrated With #GirlBoss Feminism? Look to Eastern European History

In Red Valkyries Kristen Ghodsee interrogates the false promise of liberal feminism.

Brianna Di Monda

HBO's DMZ Fails to Invent a Truly Revolutionary Society

The miniseries stars Rosario Dawson in a depoliticized dystopia

Devyn Springer

Chris Hayes on the Cost of Sanctions on Iraq

Sixteen years ago, Chris Hayes weighed the impact sanctions had on the lives of Iraqis. What lessons can we glean from this today?

Christopher Hayes

A New Podcast Opens Portals Into Queer History

"Unboxing Queer History" straddles space and time to explore LGBTQ narratives—from lesbian smelt fishing to gay liberation.

Isabel Carter

How Deindustrialization Shaped My Working-Class Family

And why it took my father 40 years to see the ocean

Lauren Celenza

“Don’t Work” and Other Lessons From the Marxist Feminism of Meridel Le Sueur

The radical fiction of this Depression-era writer is painfully relevant to the present.

Benjamin Balthaser

In Praise of The Whole World Is Watching

We remember the life and accomplishments of the late activist, writer and scholar Todd Gitlin (1943-2022).

Susan J. Douglas

Sex and the City's Soft White Supremacy

The new non-white BFFs just serve as accessories (to the white women at the center of the show)

Yasmin Nair

The New Judge Judy Is As Classist As Ever

How a TV justice extends contempt for the poor.

Yasmin Nair

David Graeber Is Gone, But He's Still Changing How We See History

In <i>The Dawn of Everything</i>, David Graeber delivers parting wisdom.

Jessica Stites

Fiction Is a Beautiful Weapon in the Class War

A conversation with Sarah Lazare, the co-author of the leftist noir novel, Testimony.

Maximillian Alvarez

The Radical History of Black Cartoonists

Meet the comic artists inking on the margins.

Sherell Barbee

Sally Rooney’s Latest Novel Shows There’s No Room for Marxism in the Professional-Managerial Class

Not every college-educated professional gets to be wealthy. <i>Beautiful World, Where Are You</i> dramatizes the internal class conflict brewing among upper-middle class elites.

Sohale Andrus Mortazavi

30 Years After the ADA, We're Still Fighting for Disability Justice

Without inclusion, none of us will be free.

A.A. Vincent

Grief Belongs in Social Movements. Can We Embrace It?

A Black activist reflects on intergenerational trauma, community, and coming to terms with death in movement building.

Malkia Devich-Cyril

Letter From the Year 2071

A vision of where the Black freedom movement could take us.

Barbara Ransby

Cultural Organizing Gives Us a Roadmap to Liberation

Co-directors of SpiritHouse, a Black women-led tribe in Durham, discuss the "life-saving" rituals and practices of freedom that ground their work towards liberation.

Mya Hunter and “Mama Nia” Wilson

RIP Jack Terricloth (1970-2021) of the World/Inferno Friendship Society

Raise a glass to toast the life and legacy of an anti-capitalist, cabaret punk iconoclast.

A.M. Gittlitz