SNCC's Think Tank
How SNCC's research department helped civil rights organizers fight Jim Crow.
The Democratic Party Is a Ghost
Democratic Party elites don’t have ideals. They just need you to be scared of the Republicans.
Yale's Lawless Administration
By refusing to negotiate with recently unionized graduate workers, Yale president Peter Salovey has announced in writing that the university will defy US labor law.
X-Ray of a Shattered Vote
Where did Le Pen’s vote come from — and what does it mean?
Announcing Catalyst
Does the world need another journal? Probably not, but we’re giving you one anyway.
Trump's Tech Opposition
Tech employees who increasingly see themselves as workers will be an important sector of resistance to Trump’s agenda.
Laughing at Rich Kids
Ja Rule’s Fyre Festival gave us a chance to laugh at rich kids. It also told us something about modern culture.
What's Next for Podemos?
Podemos MP Manolo Monereo discusses the party’s origins, its first crisis, and what it would mean for it to govern.
How the US Creates Terrorism
The US brags about its commitment to democracy. But its interventions have yielded death and despotism for the Middle East.
A Democrat Against Democracy
To preserve and expand public education, educators and parents will have to fight not only free market zealots like Betsy DeVos, but Democrats like Dwight Evans.
- Issue No. 24
- Winter 2017
Journey to the Dark Side
In this issue
How the Donald Came to Rule
A radical middle-class insurgency has stormed the Republican Party.
A Special Obscenity
Picasso painted Guernica eighty years ago this spring. It still stands as a searing protest against the brutality of war and fascism.
Which Way to the Barricades?
What was the mass strike and what would a successful one look like today?
The Uses and Abuses of Antisemitism
Campaigns to silence criticism of Israel don’t protect Jews — they endanger them.
For Health and Freedom
Civil rights activists knew their struggle was incomplete without winning a just health care system. They're an inspiration for single-payer activists today.
Back to the 1930s With Theresa May
The Tories are doing great in the polls, but their coalition is more fragile than it looks.
Spain Through Orwell’s Eyes
Eighty years ago, Barcelona’s calamitous May Days sealed the fate of a worker-led social revolution. George Orwell was there to bear witness.