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A Real Live Socialist

What Bernie Sanders brought to the job of mayor of Burlington and what he did with it help explain what matters to him and how he fits into American political argument.

March 12, 2026 issue

Julian Gewirtz

When the Chips Are Down

President Trump’s reversal of a ban on sales of advanced semiconductors to China undercut the strategic logic behind years of American policy that was meant to keep the US ahead in the race to develop AI systems.

February 26, 2026 issue

Trevor Jackson

The Struggle for the Fed

The Fed is under attack. Can it be both protected and held accountable?

February 26, 2026 issue

Ben Tarnoff

People Think

Asad Haider, the foremost socialist thinker of his generation, staked his philosophy on the principle that everyone should be fundamentally free.

February 26, 2026 issue

Fintan O’Toole

The Crime of Witness

Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered for daring to interfere with the Trump administration’s efforts to normalize abductions and state violence.

February 26, 2026 issue

Fintan O’Toole

Whose Hemisphere?

The US capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro reinforces the Trump administration’s capacity to invent any pretext to justify the use of armed force.

February 12, 2026 issue

Aryeh Neier and Gara LaMarche

Trump’s Attack on Philanthropy

Universities, law firms, and news media have already been targeted by the administration. As the Justice Department pushes to investigate the Open Society Foundations, it seems that philanthropies that support critical voices may be next.

February 12, 2026 issue

Alma Guillermoprieto

A More Pliant Chavista

President Trump’s decision to support Delcy Rodríguez as Venezuela’s new leader makes clear that oil, not democracy, is his main concern.

February 12, 2026 issue

On Venezuela

Rachel Nolan

‘There’s Nothing for Me Here’

What caused Venezuela’s collapse, and who is responsible? A recent memoir tells the story as so many families have lived it.

May 29, 2025 issue

William Neuman

Chavismo’s Chokehold

The party of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro maintains a strong hold on state institutions, but it has lost the people’s mandate. Will there be a transfer of power to the opposition candidate, Edmundo González—the true victor of this summer’s election?

September 19, 2024 issue

Nicholas Kenyon

The Triumph of a Musical Adventure

“Over the last forty years, through a succession of often controversial political regimes, Venezuela has become widely known for a highly developed system of orchestras and socially directed musical education that is now being adapted and much imitated.”

September 24, 2015 issue

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in Montevideo, Uruguay, December, 2009

Alma Guillermoprieto

The Last Caudillo

All these years later, it’s still hard to know whether his was a dictablanda (a soft dictatorship) or not. For all his anti-imperialist fulminations, the flow of Venezuelan oil to US ports was not interrupted for a single day. For all his socialist preaching, his country remained firmly capitalist.

March 6, 2013

On Iran

Amir Ahmadi Arian

Of Fire and Rain

It was sometime in the afternoon, checking my phone for news from home, that I saw the flames.

March 14, 2026

Orly Noy

Longing for My Tehran

On the Israeli news, I watch as the country whose citizenship I hold devastates the one where I was born.

March 14, 2026

Arang Keshavarzian

Iran Transformed

To understand the regime the US now seeks to obliterate, we have to return to the political and economic convulsions that produced last January’s uprising.

March 8, 2026

David Cole

The Lie of ‘Preventive’ War

Never has Donald Trump’s willful blindness to legal limits been more evident than in his decision to start a war with Iran.

March 6, 2026

The Latest

Bill McKibben

Syphoning Morale

The attack on the independence of Stars and Stripes is a window into Hegseth’s unaccountable military.

March 27, 2026

Anonymous

From the Rooftops of Tehran

We in Iran own our grief, mourning all by ourselves.

March 27, 2026

a conversation with Osita Nwanevu and Suzanne Schneider

The Neocons’ Revenge?

Trump’s war has deepened the already-widening cracks in the MAGA coalition.

March 25, 2026

Adam Hanieh

Bottling the World Economy

Now that the Gulf states have become diversified industrial giants, blocking the Strait of Hormuz will have catastrophic effects on trade networks and food systems across the globe.

March 23, 2026

Neve Gordon

The Gaza Doctrine

Over the course of two years, Israeli forces systematically destroyed the Gaza Strip’s health system. Their attacks in Iran and Lebanon follow a disturbingly similar pattern.

March 22, 2026