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The major public opinion survey institutions in the US (Pew Research, Gallup, and others) and the UK (YouGov UK, Ipsos UK, and others) are telling the same story. The citizens of both countries are ...

Progressives have long sought to transform the United States into a Scandinavian-style social democracy. New York City offers a plausible demonstration of what that might look like—and it’s not an ...

If there were three monumental works that could perhaps best explain the fate of civilizations and the future of democracy, ...

Is the contest in the world today between democracies and authoritarian societies an updated version of the contest between capitalism and communism? It has been clear for over three decades that we ...

This past month, I went to a panel at the University of Costa Rica with a group of refugees from Nicaragua. This group of fairly progressive individuals had fled Nicaragua due to political persecution ...

This article appears in the October 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Sixty years ago, the leaders of the civil rights movement faced an unavoidable question: What now? In ...

New York City has elected a democratic socialist as its next mayor. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani won with a progressive platform focused on making the city more affordable, through free bus service, ...

Fifty years ago, Sweden attempted the most ambitious democratic transition to socialism ever. Its architect, a Jewish ...

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