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With the Trump administration doing its best to get its desired outcome in the Honduras elections, we are seeing a new US Latin America policy taking shape. Martín Mosquera in the latest NLR has sketched what that looks like elsewhere on the continent.

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With great fanfare, the Trump Administration came to Milei's aid, laying on a White House visit, a $2o billion currency swap—at a fixed exchange rate, not the market price-and talk of another $2o billion in private and sovereign-fund lending. But Trump was alert to the risk of being associated with a loser and Milei's presidential term had another two years to run. 'If he does win, we're going to be very helpful', Trump told the press, with Milei sweating by his side. 'And if he doesn't, we're not going to waste our time.? Argentina's liberal-conservative media had been ambivalent about Trump, not relishing his threat of imposing a rare-earths deal on the country in exchange for his help. But at this point, he was seen as the country's only saviour.
December 2, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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In NLR 155, Nicholas Mulder on Orain’s Le monde confisqué:

‘Is the world considered infinite and its systemic interactions accordingly positive-sum; or is it inherently limited in its growth potential and destined to be ruled by zero-sum competition?’

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December 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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'AI is a true forcing move for literary criticism because it forces us to define precisely what kind of humane intelligence we can offer'

Nan Z. Da on LLMs and literary criticism, in NLR 155.

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November 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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'To what extent, beneath the now-fetishized aesthetic, was socialist modernism meaningfully the product of a radically different social system to liberal capitalism?'

Owen Hatherley on 'Socmodernist' architecture, in NLR 155.

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November 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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'In the absence of growth, no party can offer a credible programme capable of sustaining an electoral majority. The outcome has been a new configuration of political struggle'.

In NLR 155, Dylan Riley and Robert Brenner reply to critics.

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November 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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In NLR 155, Martín Mosquera dissects the rise of Milei:

‘The successive failure of the two major political coalitions fuelled a crisis of representation. The situation suggests a variant of Gramsci’s catastrophic stalemate.’

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November 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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NLR 155 is now online.

Featuring Dylan Riley and Robert Brenner on the long downturn and its politics, plus Nicholas Mulder, Owen Hatherley and more.

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November 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Carolyn Lesjak reviews Fredric Jameson in NLR 154:

‘In contrast to “the private lives of currently fashionable autofiction”, the works discussed here “try to write the collective, or at least register the crisis of the individual attempting to do so.”’

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September 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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In NLR 154, Aaron Benanav develops his framework for a post-capitalist social order:

‘From a technical standpoint, there may be no single optimal answer. But from an economic and political perspective, a choice must still be made.’

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September 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Julia Hertäg reflects in NLR 154 on three generations of Arbeiterfilme, from the radical expressionism of the Weimar era and 1960s militancy to the damning portrayals of post-reunification Germany presented by contemporary filmmakers.

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September 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Kevin Gray on the rise of the far right in South Korea, in NLR 154:

‘The political system remained prey to polarization, anti-incumbency and popular dissatisfaction, with the electorate both ‘deeply’ and ‘evenly’ divided, as in the US.’

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September 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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'No one is entitled to rest content on their progressive laurels by simply referring to the "rule of law" without attention to the kinds of law and legal institution such invocations end up buttressing.'

Martti Koskenniemi on international law in NLR 154

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September 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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September 1, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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NLR 153 is now online.

Featuring Zhang Yongle, Roberto Schwarz, Alyssa Battistoni, Aaron Benanav, Michael Burawoy and Michael Lieven.

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July 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Nick Burns quizzes Ross Douthat:

‘We’re not in post-Cold War normal anymore, and I don’t think it’s coming back. We’re in a weirder zone…’

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May 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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April 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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'Chinese nationalism and socialism have been responses to the worldwide expansion of imperialism and capitalism from their very inception.'

Teemu Ruskola on the making of the Chinese working class:

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March 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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NLR 151 is now online!

Featuring Tariq Ali on the Middle East, Susan Watkins on Trump's world, Perry Anderson on the role of ideas in history, a symposium on Robin Blackburn's work, and much more:

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March 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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October 30, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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For NLR, Owen Hatherley on Andy Beckett and the Labour left:

‘Corbyn will likely share Scargill’s fate as a figure of hate for the British ruling class for the rest of his life. He should take it as a point of pride.’

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July 16, 2024 at 10:39 AM
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‘In a world saturated with images, it is increasingly difficult to know what critical role representation, and photography in particular, might have.’

Rebecca Lossin on LaToya Ruby Frazier’s intimate depictions of the US rust belt:

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July 12, 2024 at 11:11 AM
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‘Although the Anglo-American "special relationship" is the major determinant of the UK’s place in the world, sober assessment of its content is rare.’

Grey Anderson reviews Tom Stevenson’s ‘Someone Else’s Empire’:

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July 10, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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‘Where did things go wrong for Modi? Where they usually do: in the economy.’

Radhika Desai examines the contradictions on which Hindutva has foundered:

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July 9, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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Tony Wood on AMLO’s Mexico:

‘His political eclecticism is an expression of this confused interregnum, as new parties try to cobble together unlikely electoral coalitions across a shattered social terrain.’

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July 8, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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‘Many aspects of Germany’s economic crisis have their roots in bad political decisions – the war with Russia, the handling of the green transition, the antagonistic stance towards China.’

NLR quizzes Sahra Wagenknecht on the political conjuncture:

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June 3, 2024 at 4:12 PM