Degrees of Austerity

Inside the budget crisis affecting the largest urban university in the United States and the half million students it serves.

The Coming Consensus

Love Me, Love Me, I’m a Leninist

From Nixon to Clinton

Pundits have been drawing the wrong comparisons for months: Hillary Clinton is a modern-day Richard Nixon.

More Than An Epithet

What Jonathan Chait doesn’t get about neoliberalism.

The First Neoliberals

How free-market disciples and union busters became the prophets of American liberalism.

Magical Realism, and Other Neoliberal Delusions

Ten observations on the presidential race and the state of American politics.

The Coming Left-Wing Majority

More and more young people are rejecting the politics of fear and moving left.

Agency and Abortion

What Donald Trump can learn from Frederick Douglass.

The Bernie Generation

The millennials who support Bernie Sanders have low expectations but high hopes.

We’re Still in Nixonland

The silent majority opposes Donald Trump — and nineteen other theses on American politics today.

All of Kissinger’s Friends

Last night’s Democratic debate showed how thoroughly liberals have renounced the anti-interventionist tradition.

Educate, Agitate, Organize

The Left’s engagement with the Sanders campaign is about more than one nomination in a rotten and compromised party.

The Primary Isn’t Over

Five theses on the Super Tuesday results.

Welfare Reform, Then and Now

The welfare reform bill Hillary Clinton championed has doubled the number of people living on less than $2 a day.

What Happened in New Hampshire

Some thoughts on Bernie Sanders’s resounding victory last night in the New Hampshire primary.

Bernie and the Millennials

The New Yorker is wrong. Young people are attracted to Bernie Sanders because of economic insecurity, not naive idealism.

Clinton’s Melting Firewall?

Hillary Clinton’s sizable lead over Bernie Sanders among black voters appears to be narrowing.

Bile, Bullshit, and Bernie

Sixteen notes on the presidential campaign.

Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942–2016)

Ellen Meiksins Wood breathed life into Marxist political theory.