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Aug 27, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Adolph Reed Jr.
Can we count on you? In the coming election, the fate of our democracy and fundamental civil rights are on the ballot. The conservative architects of Project 2025 are scheming to institutionalize Donald Trump’s authoritarian vision across all levels of government if he should win. We’ve already seen events that fill us with both dread and cautious optimism—throughout it all, The Nation has been a bulwark against misinformation and an advocate for bold, principled perspectives.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Adolph Reed Jr.
Class Notes / The housing crisis is the logical outcome of real estate speculation and expanding unemployment—not an inevitable fact of life. Ad PolicyThis article appears in the June 2024 issue, with the headline “For Their Own Good.”Decades of liberal advocacy preaching “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” have led us directly to City of Grants Pass v. Johnson.
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May 22, 2024 | 
socialistproject.ca | Adolph Reed Jr.
Poverty • May 22, 2024 • From Anna Seghers, Comrades (translated by Todd Cronan):Steiner (the intellectual) talking to Bató (a Hungarian communist) in 1919:“Yes, people like you are fine! Join the party and then you will have what people in general lack. Connection, security. A simple answer… A simple answer to all questions. – But everything living in the world has a hundred sides, a hundred possibilities, a hundred solutions, and man only has one life.”“A hundred?
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Feb 18, 2024 | 
socialistproject.ca | Adolph Reed Jr.
Amidst unfolding environmental disaster, ongoing genocide, and a lack of faith in public institutions, fascist and anti-democratic movements continue to gain political ground, both at home and abroad. How can working class movements respond to these fundamental threats? How can we build a real alternative that can challenge the dominant politics of division and distrust?
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
socialistproject.ca | Adolph Reed Jr.
Anti-Racism, USA • January 30, 2024 • In 2022 and early 2023, a highly publicized petition campaign sought to recall New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell. Louisiana law sets high hurdles for recall initiatives; in a jurisdiction the size of New Orleans, triggering the process requires valid signatures from twenty percent of registered voters on a petition requesting a recall election, and the effort ultimately failed.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
compactmag.com | Fredrik deBoer |Yascha Mounk |Adolph Reed Jr. |Walter Benn Michaels
The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity PoliticsBy Richard HananiaBroadside, 288 pages, $32 The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our TimeBy Yascha MounkPenguin, 416 pages, $32 No Politics But Class PoliticsBy Adolph Reed Jr. and Walter Benn MichaelsEris, 390 pages, $25 Ten years ago, Ta-Nehisi Coates, then a rising writer at The Atlantic, attended a gathering of liberal journalists at the White House.
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Dec 9, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Adolph Reed Jr.
Class Notes / The new biopic about the socialist organizer stops at the March on Washington. What is it leaving out? Ad PolicyThis article appears in the December 25, 2023/January 1, 2024 issue, with the headline “Hollywood Ending.”When I learned that Barack and Michelle Obama had announced a biopic on the socialist organizer Bayard Rustin through their production company Higher Ground, I shuddered a bit.
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Dec 9, 2023 | 
thenation.com | D.D. Guttenplan |Jeet Heer |Adolph Reed Jr. |Kali Holloway
Print MagazineEditorialSubscribers OnlyThe Media Monopoly CrisisOur new special issue takes on the out-of-control consolidation that is squeezing out independent voices and controlling what we read. for Biden’s Bear Hug of Netanyahu Is a DisasterThe renewed fighting between Israel and Hamas shows the incoherence of mixing humanitarian words and bigger bombs.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Joan Walsh |Nick Hanauer |Donald Cohen |Adolph Reed Jr.
Photographer Hannah La Follette Ryan documented the many hands of protesters demonstrating across New York City in support of Palestine. Ever since the Israel-Gaza war broke out, the worlds of the arts and academia have seen a wave of repression against people who dare to speak up for Palestine. Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen signed an open letter condemning Israeli war crimes and saw his appearance at New York’s 92Y canceled.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Mara Cavallaro |Adolph Reed Jr. |Jeanne Theoharis |Laura Flanders
Activism / StudentNation / The board has banned “critical race theory” and decried ethnic studies, but a local group of Black mothers has a plan. “We’re going to use what’s available to us—the right we have as citizens to recall.”Ad PolicyThis story is part of a series on the 2023 election by StudentNation, a program of the Nation Fund for Independent Journalism, which is dedicated to highlighting the best of student journalism.
