Trump has destroyed a federal system of labor relations that helped contain conflict for decades. The move could have unintended consequences. Joseph A. McCartin ▪ April 1, 2025 Federal workers ...

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 ...

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 ▪ ...

In the second of two episodes on Elon Musk, Matt and Sam examine key moments in the billionaire’s political derangement, his purchase of Twitter, and his role in Trump’s second term. If there’s ever ...

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 ...

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 ...

Until 1989, before the start of the armed rebellion against Indian rule, foreign and Indian visitors flocked to the valley. In 1987, according to a government survey, Kashmir welcomed 700,000 tourists ...

Last summer in this space, I wrote that although Joe Biden was intermittently making noises about a new New Deal, he could just as likely end up a twenty-first-century Warren G. Harding, a caretaker ...

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China’s social and intellectual spheres remain less monolithic than the tightly controlled public transcripts would suggest, and their possibilities deserve our continued attention. Is there any point ...

Write about politics for long enough and you’ll put some arguments into the world you come to regret. This issue’s special section on the global right has me reconsidering a long piece on American ...