Matt and Sam talk to Osita Nwanevu about his new book, The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American ...

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Cover art by Tabitha ArnoldFall 2025 ...

Trump has remade Americans, and to defeat Trumpism requires nothing less than the left doing the same. Gabriel Winant ▪ November 8, 2024 A campaign bus parked near an empty field after Kamala ...

In a world increasingly overtaken by right-wing populism, Mexico is a rare case where a progressive government has remained in control through multiple elections and made solid advances. Conservative ...

Outclassed is a monument to the very elitism it seeks to challenge.

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 ...

Democratic ideals set high standards that no polity really meets. But that does not make democracy meaningless. A society may fail to make good on its values, even as those values shape its collective ...

Flesh and blood alone cannot halt the advance of iron and steel. To stop the tanks, we need people to place blocks on the road and throw sand into the gears. Yangyang Cheng ▪ Fall 2025 A tank ...

In June, somewhere between 4 and 6 million Americans showed up to No Kings Day demonstrations in more than 2,100 cities and towns across the country. Observers estimated that this was the largest ...

Columbia University Press, 2025, 192 pp. It is a hard moment to propose that Americans need to put more faith in their government institutions. The second Trump administration has destroyed federal ...

Penguin Press, 2025, 304 pp. There’s a clue, hidden at the end of The World After Gaza, as to why Pankaj Mishra invokes the voices of Shoah survivors to critique the Israeli government’s murder of ...