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Universities Are Selling Themselves Off Piece by Piece

American higher ed has become a mesh of corporate contracts and outsourced services. From dining halls to student records, private vendors now run many institutions’ most basic operations — atomizing workers and undermining the university’s public mission.

Zohran Mamdani Takes Up Bernie Sanders’s Torch

Bernie Sanders clearly sees the future of his movement in Zohran Mamdani, who is now poised to become the next mayor of New York City. In inheriting Sanders’s movement, Mamdani inherits a daunting set of questions and challenges.

Zohran Mamdani: “New York City Is Not for Sale”

At a Brooklyn town hall with Bernie Sanders on Saturday, Zohran Mamdani recounted how Bernie “gave me the language of democratic socialism to describe my politics” and called on supporters to keep organizing after Election Day. We reproduce his speech here.

The Politics of the PMC

Vivek Chibber on how we should understand capitalism's middle strata — and why so many professionals are moving toward anti-capitalist politics.

How National Self-Sufficiency Became a Goal of the Right

What looks like Trump-era economic nationalism has deeper roots. German nationalists of the 1800s and fascist leaders of the 1930s imagined power through autarky — national self-sufficiency — with consequences that stretched from tariffs to conquest.