The new normal of U.S. politics: Why the voting booth matters less than the streets. The commons are rumbling: Maximillian Alvarez interviews Ben Becker, Jodi Dean, and Karina Garcia of the People’s Congress of Resistance. How to improve the primary process: Make it less democratic. The crowds in Boston shouted themselves hoarse — did anyone really hear them? No platform for fascism: An interview with Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook (and more). Yoav Fromer on why the American Left gave up on political violence — and why the Right increasingly embraced it. Elizabeth Warren showed how Democrats can end their civil war.
The battle over identity politics, explained: Identity politics isn’t just a tool of the Left — the Right has used it again and again. The Left can’t rely on boycotts alone: Progressives are wielding their wallets to fight Trump — but there are limits and dangers to harnessing consumer activism for political change. An unlikely coalition of Trump voters, lefty activists, and indigenous people is trying to stop the construction of a power line in New Hampshire — what does it bode for the future of politics? Even in red states, liberal candidates are climbing into power in the nation’s cities.
