What socialism should offer is freedom by way of power and democratic control over our polity and economy—and thus over our future as a society. Matt Bruenig has one proposal out at his People's Policy Project on how to begin to do just that,

Persistent efforts to prove that racism alone elected Trump are a dead end.

Nikhil Pal Singh on the unfortunate obsession shared by certain pundits, journalists and social scientists: definitively proving that Trump won because of racism, and racism alone. What drives so many people to dedicate so much time to arguing that eit...

Elizabeth Rush on Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore

Dan speaks to Elizabeth Rush, the author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, a lyrical, mournful but ultimately hopeful account of people dealing with amongst the most tangible effects of global warming right now: the rising seas that a...

Audrea Lim, Thea Riofrancos, Ashley Dawson and Daniel Aldana Cohen.

Today's episode is a long one. It's the first of two this week on climate politics: a live event that I hosted at Verso Books in New York a couple weeks ago. Or, at least part of it is. The event livestream, which we grabbed the audio from,

Josie on her new podcast with Clint Smith, carceral feminism, liberal Comey worship and more.

Josie Duffy Rice on Justice in America, her new podcast from The Appeal that she co-hosts with with Clint Smith, media coverage of criminal justice, carceral feminism and domestic violence, and the disturbing liberal affection for federal law enforceme...

Sean Guillory on the deep roots of Russia's political-economic order and the bizarre, dangerous state of US relations.