Matt and Sam are joined by MSNBC’s Chris Hayes to discuss his new book The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource. We’re all anxious, and none of us can pay attention.

Destructive displays of technological prowess in Lebanon serve to distract the Israeli public from the military’s failure to achieve its long-stated war aims. Yet Israel will not bring about regional ...

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ Spring 2024 Art by Tabitha Arnold While we are paying a lot of attention to U.S. conservatives this election year, it is also an auspicious time to publish a ...

Eve Livingston’s new book, Make Bosses Pay, aims to get young people connected to unions and to push unions to engage more with the working class as it is today: diverse, precarious, and perhaps on ...

The Supreme Court is poised to overturn race-based affirmative action. But preferences based on socioeconomic disadvantage—which are both politically popular and legally sound—could produce similarly ...

It is a pattern we see again and again: new political hopefuls are elected to office espousing progressive values and vowing to challenge the status quo in Washington, D.C. They are sent off with high ...

Matt and Sam explore the “crisis of masculinity” in America through books on the subject by Senator Josh Hawley and Harvard political theorist Harvey Mansfield. Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ...

The metaverse heralds an age in which hardly anyone still believes that tech firms can actually solve our problems. Anna-Verena Nosthoff and Felix Maschewski ▪ February 23, 2023 A rendering of ...

Graduate students won a major raise after five weeks on strike. The victory is a product of the militancy that has pushed the union to the vanguard of organized labor in higher ed. Nelson Lichtenstein ...

The Fed’s decision to raise interest rates for the fourth time this year threatens to loosen the tightest U.S. labor market in decades. What would it look like if policymakers consolidated workers’ ...

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell June 17, 2022 Jerry Falwell in 1988 (Bettmann/Getty) Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more ...

A conversation with Ilya Budraitskis on how the invasion of Ukraine has transformed Russian society. Naomi Cohen ▪ June 8, 2022 Arrestees are seen through the window of a police vehicle at an ...