In 1978, just after I graduated from college, I worked at a migrant health clinic in California’s San Joaquin Valley and saw what 1960s activism had achieved. Farmworkers received health services at ...

After decades of relative stagnation, American housing policy is now several years into a period of radical change and experimentation. In California, where I am policy director for the state-level ...

A quarter-century ago, the multilateral system of global economic governance had reached its pinnacle. Today, the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank are experiencing a deep crisis of legitimacy. Walden ...

An interview with Adam Przeworski. Patrick Iber ▪ Fall 2025 Soldiers guard prisoners at Chile’s National Stadium after the 1973 coup. (Marcelo Montecino/Getty Images) Patrick Iber: Over the ...

The Green New Deal is a wager that more democracy, rather than less, is the way to tackle climate change. If you’re worried about democracy, climate change won’t make you feel better. For decades now, ...

A generation of thinkers was raised in the orbit of centrist technocracy. As its luster continues to fade, strange new gods will arise in their midst. James Chappel ▪ Spring 2020 Adrian ...

Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the “taxpayer” has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on democracy. Vanessa Williamson ▪ Winter 2021 A composite photograph ...

Since the Great Recession, Karl Polanyi has become a totem for social democracy. But as a new biography of him suggests, Polanyi himself is an uneasy fit as spokesman for any specific social order.

Duke University Press, 2022, 296 pp. Tahir Hamut Izgil’s recent memoir, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night, brings to life a cast of poets and intellectuals who used to meet under the cover of darkness, ...

The alleged sexual violence committed by Cesar Chavez cannot be understood as the failing of a single charismatic leader. It ...

Ethiopia’s Tigray, Sudan, Gaza. In the 2020s, civil wars and counterinsurgencies have caused death and displacement on a scale not seen since the Cold War. Yet the academic field dedicated to studying ...

In the era of global capitalism, imagining the lives of others is a crucial form of solidarity. Brian Morton ▪ Fall 2020 Novelist Ralph Ellison poses for a portrait in Harlem in 1966. (David ...