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The Problem with the Problem with Appalachia

Posted September 19, 2018

For many, conservatives and liberals alike, Appalachia provides a skeleton key for interpreting changes in American politics that might otherwise be...

Beyond Economism with Nancy Fraser

Posted September 12, 2018

Legendary critical theorist Nancy Fraser argues that a total analysis of capitalism requires taking Marxism beyond a narrowly economistic view. Throughout...

Matt Bruenig Spreads the Wealth Around

Posted September 9, 2018

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...

Race or Class? Bad Question. With Nikhil Pal Singh.

Posted September 5, 2018

Nikhil Pal Singh on the unfortunate obsession shared by certain pundits, journalists and social scientists: definitively proving that Trump won because...

Organizing Amid Rising Tides

Posted August 31, 2018

Dan speaks to Elizabeth Rush, the author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, a lyrical, mournful but ultimately hopeful account...