Rodrigo Nunes’s new book explores what Brazil’s far right can teach us about the fundamental motivations of the far right ...

For the past 50 years, Texas has been a GOP stronghold. Despite the good efforts of figures such as Beto O’Rourke, Barbara Jordan, and Ann Richards, the state has remained firmly in the grip of big ...

Newspapers, illustrated journals, posters, and postcards turned the Dreyfus Affair into the first modern media event of the ...

Mainstream economics tends only to consider that which is measurable and only to value that which produces a monetary cost or benefit. Unpaid labor becomes an afterthought, something easy to dismiss ...

A large heron flew over the shore of Lake Michigan at dusk, with cardboard wings spanning sixteen feet—the width of the four activists who held up the puppet’s structural rods. Its wings flapped up ...

This episode revisits birthright citizenship, both the Supreme Court’s opinion and Trump v. Barbara, and the more recent executive orders where the Trump Administration, once again, tries to take a ...

On September 17, 2011, a few hundred people spent the night at Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park and launched the movement known as Occupy Wall Street. Claiming to embody the “99%,” the movement ...

Samuel Stein’s A Right to Housing? asks more than just the titular question, but it does sit with a particularly troubling dilemma: are we crazy to keep fighting? As the book jacket describes, it ...

I’m giving my right foot a pep talk. My left foot has been rolling the skateboard backward and forward over asphalt concrete. I take one deep, confidence-building breath before finally forcing myself ...

Cover image for The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West by A. J. A. Woods (Verso, 2026) In July 1998, Lind was invited to speak at an ...

Illustration from a Book of Hours attributed to an artist of the Ghent-Bruges school (ca. 1400s) | Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library / Public Domain Review / PD Worldwide A specter is haunting ...

Anyone who has transcribed a conversation knows the strangeness of the result: Speech, once written down, often looks less intelligent than it sounded. Repetitions that carried rhythm become clutter; ...