Donald Trump is back in the White House. How did he get there? Why did Democrats fail? And how can we fight back? Essays by David Austin Walsh, Jeanne Morefield, Robin D. G. Kelley, Noura Erakat, Marshall Steinbaum, and others.Plus Gianpaolo Baiocchi on building a workers’ movement, Aaron Bady on the fertility panic, Joelle M. Abi-Rached on the afterlife of political violence, and Samuel ...

8 hours ago · Progressive taxation is the single most important policy lever for reducing the power of the rich—not because it raises revenue that can be redistributed via public programs or directly to the poor, but because it imposes a de facto statutory maximum on income or wealth, eliminating the incentive to hoard the economy’s resources. Unrestrained capital accumulation is the main reason for ...

Donald Trump is back in the White House. Our next issue, Trump’s Return, explores how he got there, what’s next, and how to resist, featuring David Austin Walsh, Robin D. G. Kelley, Noura Erakat, Marshall Steinbaum, Jeanne Morefield, and more. Subscribe now to get this issue, and use code RETURN20 for 20% off.

Jan 31, 2025 · Editors’ Note The New MAGA Coalition. David Austin Walsh. Blood Ties. Jeanne Morefield. Election Chronicles. Robin D. G. Kelley on the only path forward, Mark Schmitt on the new oligarchy’s electioneering, Janice Fine & Benjamin Schlesinger on rebuilding labor, Noura Erakat on the imperial boomerang, and Marshall Steinbaum on the folly of top-down reform

6 days ago · Trump began his second term by signing a spate of executive orders, many echoing directives from his first administration. He promised tariffs on all goods from Canada and Mexico (as Dean Baker wrote about this week) and codified an anti-immigrant “invasion” narrative into law (as Jeanne Morefield scrutinizes). Trump also withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate ...

Jan 28, 2025 · Browse our essays, reviews, and interviews on politics. A conversation with Wendy Brown on the U.S. presidential election, the exclusions liberal democracy is built on, and why we must aim at more than restoring its mythical former splendor.

Nov 1, 2024 · This note introduces our Fall 2024 issue. We go to press just days before the U.S. presidential election. No matter who wins, the staggering problems with American democracy—the concentration of wealth, the power of large corporations, enormous economic inequality—will remain a challenge.

Winter 2025. Donald Trump is back in the White House. How did he get there, what’s next, and how do we resist? Fall 2024. Generative AI tools, released by a handful of powerful tech companies, are remaking the economy, society, and human life as we know it.

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Jul 21, 2024 · The Republican National Convention took place this week in Milwaukee, where Ohio Senator J. D. Vance was named Donald Trump’s running mate, a long-standing call for a federal abortion ban was dropped from the party’s platform, and Teamsters president Sean O’Brien spoke—the first time the head of the prominent union has addressed the RNC.