Mencken Agonistes
Misrepresented by the right and misunderstood by the left, the Sage of Baltimore delivered scathing—and still bracing—indictments of American injustice. By Andrew Holter
Slavery Pure and Simple
A recent bombshell report documents brutal cases of forced labor in Mexico. Why can’t the government take it seriously? By Claudio Lomnitz
The Rise and Fall of Tech Worker Power
Crushing our union drive at Twitter opened the floodgates for Silicon Valley’s assault on labor. By JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine
no other path forward
The Left’s Achilles’ Heel
Can we out-organize the right?
Eric Blanc
The Price of the Ticket
The long arc of the defund movement.
Robin D. G. Kelley
Who Wants AI?
Lessons from the data center backlash.
Lily Hu, Robinson Meyer, Nicholas Rabb, and Astra Taylor
Working Like a Dog
The future of animal rights.
Aaron Neber
features
Gleaner, Cobbler, Commons
Re-establishing the human with John Berger.
Peter Linebaugh
Is It the Phones?
Anatomy of a moral panic.
Lorna Finlayson
A Bigger Hell
Slavery returns to Mexico.
Claudio Lomnitz
Exit and Exception
The Board of Peace as template for a new world order.
Noura Erakat
