Trump has destroyed a federal system of labor relations that helped contain conflict for decades. The move could have ...

The Chinese government has rebuffed bold consumption stimulus policy. But boosting domestic household spending is precisely what the country needs to achieve healthy growth. Ho-fung Hung ▪ ...

The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport. Melinda ...

This article is one in a series of arguments on U.S. history in our summer issue. Barack Obama sought the middle of the road. “It is incontrovertible that race relations have improved significantly in ...

At a teeming intersection of Shenzhen’s Dongmen shopping street, between KFC and McDonald’s, Liu Zhongqiu, twenty-one, sits on a white fold-up chair that looks as if it is about to break and clasps ...

Zed Books, 2012, 224 pp. The financial crisis of 2007–2008 inspired a shallow but significant revival of Marxist analysis in academic life. A violent upsurge in theory, however, has corresponded to no ...

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In many parts of the country, rising rents have hit a political limit, as politicians, unions, and community organizations increasingly recognize the centrality of housing to the cost-of-living crisis ...

Our documentary No Other Land won an Oscar, but the conditions it depicts are only getting worse. Basel Adra ▪ March 6, 2025 Israeli army forces demolish Palestinian homes and property in ...

In the first of two episodes on Elon Musk, Matt and Sam explore the billionaire’s fraught adolescence and first years in Silicon Valley. Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ March 17, 2025 Elon ...

We should be ashamed that there are so many in food lines across the country. Unless dramatic action is taken, the lines are about to get much longer. Mark Levinson ▪ Winter 2021 (Spencer Platt ...