Five years ago, unions barely existed in digital media. Today, they may save the industry from the worst of the COVID-19 depression—and provide a model to other working professionals.

Genetic heritage without cultural and social context is meaningless. And yet, despite years of warnings from scientists about the shortcomings of this “genetic astrology,” sales of genealogical DNA tests continue to reach new highs.

U.S. and U.K. electoral systems allow evenly spread minorities to beat majorities concentrated geographically. But there are options to counteract that.

While our society rightly values protest and free expression, the critics of “cancel culture” turn this virtue into a vice, contemptuously dismissing those who collectively express their disapproval.

To make start-ups work for everyone, we need to put power back in the hands of workers.

As much as Bernie Sanders seems alien to many of the shul-going, institutionally affiliated older Jewish Americans, he is deeply representative of the silent majority for whom social justice movements take the place of synagogue and Israel is more often a cause for kvetching than kvelling.

Viewing Todd Phillips’s new film through the lens of the present misses the larger picture. In 1981, Ronald Reagan was the original Joker.

To pull off an upset in the style of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Brooklyn's Isiah James is banking on building a grassroots campaign with what could be the most ambitious plan in Congress’s history to guarantee quality, affordable housing for all Americans.

If Democrats want to win control of Washington in 2020, running on socialism may provide just the answer.

A conservative publication fell for a hoax by a fake construction worker, but the real fiction is much more widespread.

Liberals would do well to remember how Ronald Reagan, the destroyer of progressive worlds and leader of America’s historic shift to the political right, took and held power: by appealing to Russophobia.

Quillette ran a hit piece on the DSA by Queens construction worker and "Marxist-Leninist-Alinskyite” Archie Carter. Surprise, surprise, it was a hoax. We talked to the real Archie Carter about why he embarrassed the conservative publication.

“People, they need to believe. And nowadays, they’ll believe anything.”

What a French migrant camp teaches us about Trump’s border camps.

Millions of you are suffering in overly air-conditioned workplaces right now. This isn't about remembering to bring an extra sweater to work — it's class war. Workers should be in control of office temperature, not bosses.

With journalism moving from a stable to a precarious profession, digital media workers have become some of the most organized in the startup world Aaron Freedman: In the past few years digital media workers have been on the frontlines of unionizing private workplaces. Why is that? Hamilton Nolan: I think that journalists are smart enough to understand the basic fact that unionizing is good for them. Once people in our industry saw unionization happening, the unavoidable logic of the idea reall

Money from the Koch network is finding its way into the hands of the loudest online promoters of free speech—or at least, free speech for conservative viewpoints.

Bhaskar Sunkara, founder of the socialist magazine Jacobin, has released a new book just in time for the 2020 presidential election season called The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality (Basic Books, 2019). In the book, Sunkara makes the case for why a socialist economy, government, and society is necessary, and what it might look like. He also provides an in-depth historical look at the development of socialist intellectual thought over the past 150 years. Our Economics Editor Aaron Freedman speaks with him about the past, present, and future of socialist economics.

When the term antisemitism is cheapened by false usage on the right, it gives cover to the real antisemites.

As Democratic primary voters weigh Biden’s appeal, looking at the limitations of Konrad Adenauer’s similar vision — even in a different country and a different century — offers insight that is urgently needed today.