Issue section: Democracy versus Degeneration in the United States

McCarthyism Then and Now

An Interview with Ellen Schrecker

By: Elizabeth Rapaport Summer 2026

Historian Ellen Schrecker discusses how the repression against students and workers in higher education today are in many ways worse than McCarthyism.

A Referendum on Democracy? A Chance for a New Direction?

By: Dan La Botz Summer 2026

Dan La Botz analyzes the latest development of Trump’s authoritarian regime and prospects for resistance in the United States.

Fighting Nativist Immigration Policy

A Report from the Los Angeles Battlefield

By: Raoul Cansino Summer 2026

On Friday, June 6, 2025, federal agents descended on four businesses in Los Angeles and arrested dozens of workers on suspicion of violation of U.S. immigration laws. In response, hundreds of people gathered around federal buildings in downtown Los Angeles

The Political Economy of Nativism

By: Bill Kelly Summer 2026

Bill Kelly argues that exploitation and deportation of Latin American immigrants have long been a feature of U.S. capitalism.

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The New Politics Summer 2026 issue will soon be in the hands of subscribers, featuring articles on Democracy versus Degeneration in the United States (with contributions by Dan La Botz, Ellen Schrecker on McCarthyism Then and Now interviewed by Elizabeth Rapaport, Ben Silverman on the fascism debate, Samuel Farber on free speech, Samuel Barney on rural prisons, and Raoul Cansino and Bill Kelly on nativism), Imperialism Around the World (with articles by Lisbeth Moya González on Cuba, Husam Mahjoub on Sudan, Siyavash Shahabi and imperialism and the working class, and Matt Benson on the Mapuche in Chile), interviews on labor struggles and Russian political prisoners, a history of the International Socialists, review essays by Frieda Afary on AI, Javier Sethness on Western Marxism, and Peter Drucker on Molly Crabapple, as well as reviews on Ukraine, the Teamsters for a Democratic Union, white rage, South Asia, and Afghanistan, plus a letter on women under the Taliban.

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