Culture

“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

Culture

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

Culture

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

Culture

The New Judge Judy Is As Classist As Ever

How a TV justice extends contempt for the poor.

Yasmin Nair

InterviewCulture

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

Culture

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

Culture

The Radical History of Black Cartoonists

Meet the comic artists inking on the margins.

Sherell Barbee

Culture

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

Culture

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

Without inclusion, none of us will be free.

A.A. Vincent

Culture

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

Culture

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

Culture

Letter From the Year 2071

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

Barbara Ransby

ViewpointCulture

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

Culture

Toward Radical, Queer, Erotic Movement-Building

A conversation on labor and pleasure with Kemi Alabi and Tina Horn of the Echoing Ida and We Too collections.

Clara Liang, Catherine Henderson, Daniela Ochoa-Bravo, Alex DiBranco and Sadie Morris

Culture

The Deep Downward Spiral of Police Violence and Rebellion, Explained

A conversation with Elizabeth Hinton, author of "America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s."

Hamilton Nolan

Culture

Fear of a Black Superhero

'The Falcon and the Winter Soldier' is just the latest in a series of comic book adaptations to cheer American empire—and vilify any form of radicalism.

Leslie Lee

Culture

On the Air with All (or Most) Things Considered

To mark the 50th anniversary of National Public Radio, we revisit this 1979 story on the station and its flagship program "All Things Considered," which at the time was known as "Sesame Street for adults."

Beth Bogart

Culture

Hunter Biden Is the Unwitting Poster Boy for Our Sham Meritocracy

"Beautiful Things," a new memoir by the president's son, offers a revealing glimpse into the lives of America's ruling class.

Jacob Bacharach

Culture

The Neoliberal Fantasy at the Heart of 'Nomadland'

Chloé Zhao's film erases capitalism as the cause of economic pain, instead telling a story of individual suffering.

Arun Gupta and Michelle Fawcett

Culture

Alicia Garza on the Problem of Celebrity in Social Movements

Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza reflects on platforms and pedestals.

Alicia Garza

Culture

Adam Curtis Wants You To Imagine Another World

The British documentarian discusses his new film, 'Can’t Get You Out of My Head,' why progressives need to ditch the term “neoliberalism,” and more.

Jacob Sugarman

Culture

Against Loving Your Job

"We need a politics of time. A political understanding that our lives are ours to do with what we will."

Sarah Jaffe

Culture

Public Wailing as Political Dissent

Both personal and political, wailing disrupts the social order.

Renee Simms

Culture

The Violent Story of American Whiteness

Three writers dive into the depths of white supremacy in America, from alt-right dating sites to the neo-Nazi movement to protect Confederate monuments.

Kim Kelly