In the UK, the left no longer has a party, but it may still have the tools necessary for retaking it—tools that can be improved, remodeled, and reorganized.

Only public investment will deliver a media that can serve the news needs of our time.

The rich and powerful use racism to protect their interests and scapegoat communities of color. But there is an effective way to talk about both race and class when organizing for multiracial democracy.

The left is at its most intelligent and most ethical when it believes—and vigorously promotes the belief—that everyone has the right to be heard.

Free speech, like any freedom struggle, is about power.

Liberal appeals to truth will not stop fascists.

The more acceptable it is to denounce people because of their speech, the more likely it is that it will eventually happen to you.

What gives leftists the space to promote unpopular positions is the respect most Americans give to free speech.

We won’t end precarity with nostalgia for an era when men were the primary breadwinners.

The best family policies would lift household income by raising pay and social wages—and would value work wherever it takes place.

Family abolitionism puts children’s freedom at the heart of society.

The Turkish government’s crackdown on protests at Boğaziçi University earlier this year has brought together the broadest coalition of AKP opponents since the 2013 Gezi Park protests.

A new documentary finally gives Pauli Murray, the trailblazing feminist and civil rights lawyer who coined the term “Jane Crow,” their due.

Since the Nixon era, the Supreme Court’s treatment of poverty and racial justice has made it a consistent enemy of society’s most marginalized.

In the face of COVID-19, the political response has been at best temporary relief and at worst indifference. What we need going forward is not just better public health measures, but a response to the economic insecurities and policy failures that it laid bare.

Sexual Hegemony, an ambitious retelling of the history of capitalism through the politics of gay sex, arrives just in time to help dissuade us of the idea that we have reached the end of gay history.

A massive overhaul and expansion of the wildland workforce is the best hope we have to confront the firestorm that threatens to engulf the West Coast.

The pandemic has revealed how the rapid urbanization fueling India’s economic ascent is rooted in migrant labor.

It’s time to let go of the belief that changing demographics will bring about a progressive America.

Owen Hatherley’s eye-opening account of the left in power in London suggests both the possibilities and limits for municipal socialism.