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China’s Rail Revolution
An interview with Chinese technology analyst Dan Wang on the remarkable development of China’s high-speed rail network
The Railroading of a Steel Town
The 158-year story of the Steelton mill’s rise and eventual fall is a grim object lesson in the fading strength of American industry and the dangers of a deindustrialized economy.
New York State of Mind
What New York can and can't teach us about the future of democratic socialism
Everyone Loves Hitler
What’s the deal with non-white neo-Nazis?
Adolph Reed: We’re Not Going to Get Out of This Overnight
An interview with Adolph Reed, Jr. on the 1996 Labor Party, left organizing today, and why 1965 was a watershed moment in American politics
Make America Again
A populist case for American pride and patriotism
Foaming for Breakdown
YouTubers documenting their Amtrak journeys unwittingly offer a sad window into American decline. But they’re also keeping the hope alive that the US might see the infrastructural renewal it needs.
Brazil Off the Rails
The train, for Brazil, is a fairytale: a fetish, not a transit solution; an image of a past modernity, now turned quaint, not a vision for the future.
Everybody's Doin' a Brand New Dance Now
To the extent that dance crazes still exist, they aren't making them for the masses anymore.
Canada Doesn’t Need a "Green New Deal"
There are few left-wing movements in the world so Americanized as the Canadian Left.