Last year was a bad one for incumbent political parties and for women. One country, however, bucked all these trends: Mexico, where Claudia Sheinbaum, won the presidency in a landslide.
Poet Suzanne Cleary sneaks a peek into the production of art in a theocratic society.
Since the very earliest days of the United States, class was a central lens through which Americans interpreted politics . . . in the 1960s politicians began to focus on race and gender . . . Now, with Trump . . . class appears to be back . . .
In the nail-biting new season of Netflix’s hit series Squid Game, players’ desperate circumstances push them to make fatally risky bets on individual success even when collective action might save them.
In a new study, we found that legislators who are descendants of slaveholders are significantly wealthier than members of Congress without slaveholder ancestry.
Poet Weijia Pan offers a glimpse of the contradictions in a “classless” society.
The labor organizer Bill Fletcher says that, to protect our constitutional democracy, “the union movement needs to become an anti-fascist movement.”
In South Asia, from mass unrest to political upheaval
What “balanced” coverage covers up about Trump’s bombast and Project 2025
A new book shows how people are getting the right’s class appeal all wrong.
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