Among the Thugs
You can only play whack-a-fascist-mole so many times before needing to find another game.
Brendan O’Connor
Brendan O’Connor is a writer in New York City and the author of Blood Red Lines: How Nativism Fuels the Right.
The Long Crisis on Rikers Island
May 12, 2022
How New York City lost control of its most infamous jail complex.
When the Party’s Over
In the 1967 preface to History and Class Consciousness, Hungarian communist Georg Lukács reflected critically but not cruelly on the “messianic sectarianism” of his youth: “Our enthusiasm was a very makeshift substitute for knowledge and experience.” After the 1917 ...
Hanging by a Strand
Worker dissent brews at an iconic New York bookstore.
The Accelerating Gyre
Though it was just one part of Donald Trump’s disastrously incompetent and cruel response to the coronavirus crisis, the president’s executive order on immigration in April revealed the dynamics that shape his administration better than just about anything he’s done in the ...
The Deserving Migrant
A false dichotomy haunts Democratic immigration reform.
Impossible Contradictions
When capitalism and nativism find themselves at a crossroads
Too Close to Call
On VAR and soccer’s data problem.