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Of course, as an author who wrote a book that a reader misunderstood, I apologize to readers of the book and of Sernatinger’s review, and to Andrew himself, for any confusion I have caused.

If organized labor in the U.S. could go from historic membership lows in the 1920s to an early 1950s peak union density of nearly one-third of all private sector workers, maybe that great leap forward could be repeated again, sometime in the future?

Future events taking place in Cuba offer the DSA an opportunity to break with its support for the Cuban Communist States and to actually support the Cuban people…

Marieme Hélie-Lucas as a young woman.
We learned of Marieme Hélie-Lucas’s death on August 9, 2026. Her passing marks the loss of an extraordinary feminist intellectual, organizer, and political activist whose influence extended across continents and generations. For those of us

The roots of the coming conflict between Trump and the forces of democracy.

Eighty-one years ago this week, on August 6 and August 9, United States dropped two atomic bombs  on Japan, the first on Hiroshima and the second on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 200,000 human beings and poisoning and sickening many others.

The book sets out to familiarize uninitiated DSA members with the terms of political debates that are in play nearly ten years after the organization’s resurgence in 2016.

AOC has not yet said whether she will run for senator or president.

The people of Pakistan-administered Jammu Kashmir are facing one of the bloodiest episodes of state repression in recent history.

This is not a protest for a minister. It is a protest against a system.

Then, in October 2023, the war in Gaza began. Her dreams slipped away, not only the dream of buying that piece of land, but even the simple dream of living in peace, free from the constant fear of losing the people she loved.

Democracy thwarted, democracy suspended, democracy gutted: a new political era is dawning in Italy, the United States, and also in France. The piece-by-piece construction of an absolutist governmental sovereignty, which is taking hold by methodically disarming each of the powers that could stand in its way.