Ned Resnikoff

The 2016 Democratic primary will probably include a democratic socialist candidate for president. That would be Bernie Sanders, the irascible senator from Vermont, who has spent the past few months telling the press that he is considering entering the race. Michael Kazin, ...

The word “slavery” has been so thoroughly abused in the context of American political discourse, that it’s easy to forget that it still means something, even in a nation that ostensibly abandoned the practice a century and a half ago. Yet when Sheila Bapat uses the word in ...

For the past year or so, left-wing Twitter’s favorite running gag has been to invoke right-wing Twitter’s bizarre fixation on Benghazi—or, rather, on #BENGHAZI—the seemingly unkillable non-scandal which evolved out of the 2012 terror attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya. ...

If any single event thus far has perfectly encapsulated up the public’s relationship with Google Glass, it was the Bay Area bar fight which made Sarah Slocum a minor celebrity. A few months ago, Slocum made headlines by claiming she had been assaulted by anti-Glass zealots in ...

David Brooks wants you to know that he shares your concern for the poor. That’s always where these conversations must necessarily begin—with a polite acknowledgement that everyone means well and want the best for those wretched, faceless, and largely theoretical creatures ...