Four short essays by Carla Murphy, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Touré F. Reed, and Anika Fassia and Tinselyn Simms.
Summer 2021
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Belabored: Why “Corporate Social Responsibility” Fails Workers
A close look at what happens when corporations police themselves.
Know Your Enemy: After Nationalism, with Samuel Goldman
An interview with political theorist Samuel Goldman on “being American in an age of division.”
All Work and No Play
Video games, like any creative product, reflect and refract the conditions of their production. Today, what they most resemble is twenty-first-century work.
Arguments on the Left: Elections and Coalitions
Four short essays by Jeet Heer, Samuel Moyn, Jane McAlevey, and Mitchell Cohen.
Digital Corbynism
In the UK, the left no longer has a party, but it may still have the tools necessary for retaking it—tools that can be improved, remodeled, and reorganized.
Belabored: Critical Race Panic in Schools, with Jesse Hagopian
A new right-wing campaign to ban “critical race theory” aims to crack down on teachers who teach honestly about racism. How can teachers protect themselves and their students?
Culture War in the Classroom
It is time for educators to go on the offensive against the conservative campaign to ban “critical race theory” from schools.
Arguments on the Left: Free Speech
Five short essays by Brian Morton, K-Sue Park, Katha Pollitt, Natasha Lennard, and Asad Haider.
Rage Against American Healthcare
In the United States, sick patients spend hours coordinating, haggling, and sometimes pleading with the healthcare system. Can these frustrations become a source of radical change?
Redlining, Race, and the Color of Money
Redlining maps document the deep history of institutional racism in the United States. They also reveal how the federal government managed risk for capital—a role that has perpetuated inequality long after the end of explicit discrimination in the housing market.
How a Campus Protest Galvanized the Turkish Opposition
The Turkish government’s crackdown on protests at Boğaziçi University earlier this year has brought together the broadest coalition of AKP opponents since the 2013 Gezi Park protests.
The Afghanistan Evacuation
The Biden administration announced that it will accelerate plans to relocate Afghans who worked with the U.S. military. Their situation demands the most urgent response possible.
