An analysis of how the Wall Street Journal covers socialism and socialists versus how the New York Times does.
Reflecting on how my book, The Rise of a New Left (Verso, 2022) predicted the state of the U.S. left in September 2026.
Wide-ranging interview about my book, The Rise of a New Left, and the ascendant socialist movement in the United States with Buenos Aires-based journalist and editor Mariano Schuster of the Latin American journal Nueva Sociedad.
In-depth investigative report on prisoners held for days in so-called defecation rooms in New York State prisons. Supported by grants from Solitary Watch and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
Analysis of corporate media’s portrayal of standard grassroots organizing as a sinister conspiracy.
An interview with Wisconsin state legislator Francesca Hong, frontrunner in the state’s 2026 Democratic gubernatorial primary.
Examining how corporate media covers democratic socialist wins.
“Academic freedom” is in the eye of the beholder.
Analysis of what New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani could do to empower workers to enforce labor law.
Esther Cohen was removed as Greene County’s poet laureate just weeks after her appointment. Critics say it’s “emblematic of the assault on the arts writ large.”
On Molly Crabapple’s ‘Here Where We Live Is Our Country’
The bill follows reporting from New York Focus and other news outlets on prison staff mistaking menstrual and contraceptive products for hidden contraband.
Much has been written about sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, whose numerous social and business ties to members of the global elite are still being untangled…
New York Times columnist David Brooks recently announced that he was leaving the paper after 22 years to join the staff of the Atlantic. He’ll also be a presidential senior fellow at Yale University, where he will deliver lectures and host a podcast for the magazine…
Much as they did back in 2018, when New Yorkers stunned the political establishment by electing a little-known former bartender named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Congress, the corporate political press covered the most thrilling Democratic victories of 2025 as if they were largely inexplicable, semi-miraculous flukes…