Cognitive dissonance helps explain why people often turn away from problems they feel powerless to change: denial takes hold. That denial can weaken the solidarity required to change the conditions ...

After a militant 1970 hospital takeover birthed a pioneering detox program in the South Bronx, New York City is now studying what it dismantled, and what redress requires amid an ongoing overdose ...

A complacent view contrasts the freedom of the US internet with the tight regimentation of the Chinese version. In reality, the two seem to be converging around a model of state and oligarchic control ...

Britain’s Labour government has brought forward a bill that’s supposed to address the legacy of the Troubles in the North of ...

It started as an online joke after a top judge compared jobless young people to cockroaches. It has become the most serious ...

In September, Swedish voters defeated a governing coalition that the far right had propped up. But the Center Party is now ...

Americans are suffering under an affordability crisis, while the climate crisis is making life more expensive. Both require ...

A decade after Bernie Sanders’s first presidential run, intraleft debates about whether to engage with the Democrats are ...

The stability of Vladimir Putin’s rule has long relied on encouraging citizens to ignore politics. But last month’s wartime ...

A new history traces the American idealization of homeownership. It lays bare the high social costs of organizing democracy ...

Centrist Democrats like potential 2028 presidential candidate Rahm Emanuel are presenting heightened great-power rivalry as the path to US national renewal. Socialists need to articulate an ...

Emile Chabal, author of a new biography of the massively popular and influential historian Eric Hobsbawm, explains how ...