From Momentum to Your Party
The rightward slide of the Labour Party under the leadership of Keir Starmer is one of the most remarkable developments of the past few years.
Editorial — Summer & Fall 2025
In our first double issue of Catalyst, we examine both the dilemmas of contemporary capitalism and some possible routes out of it. Two essays take on some of the defining horrors of our time.
My Quest to Make the Pentagon Care About the Crimes It Covered Up
For years, I’ve shared names of former soldiers implicated in atrocities with the Pentagon. It’s shown no interest in punishment until Mark Kelly dissed Trump.
Kind of Blue: A Short History of Tory Decline
What has degraded a lineage of once consummate state managers and political operators into, to borrow Dominic Cummings’ description of the Johnson cabinet, a parade of ‘fuck pigs and morons’?
Kat Abughazaleh Thinks Campaign Funds Should Help Feed People
The Illinois congressional candidate turned her campaign office into a mutual aid hub.
Why Millennials Love Prenups
Long the province of the ultra-wealthy, prenuptial agreements are being embraced by young people—including many who don’t have all that much to divvy up.
The Medical Law of Accumulation: Putting the Sick on the Line
Thatcher attentively reproduced many a theme from the pioneering monetarist and racist Enoch Powell, racialising the experience of inner-city industrial decline as a problem of disobedient foreign cultures.
The Sad Dads of Hollywood
Three of the year’s buzziest films hold career-obsessed, absentee fathers accountable.
Inside California’s Wild Christmas Tree Harvest
Each winter, crews climb into the Cascades to cut wild silvertip firs, a fragile tradition now imperiled by wildfire, climate change and tightening immigration …
Goodbye to Language: The Year in Trumpspeak
Donald Trump often doesn’t know what he’s talking about and no one else does either. But when he talks, people still listen, trying to make sense out of streams of nonsense. Like Homer’s sirens, it’s impossible to tune him out.
Some of Our Most-Read Stories of 2025
Spend time with a selection of articles that resonated with our readers this year.
The State of Critique: Launch of the Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (CCLAS)
To inaugurate the launch of our new research centre (formerly the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context) at the School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London, we are bringing together intellectuals from across the disciplines of …
Care, Cordiality, and Control. Multisensorial Encounters with More-than-Security in Urban Brazil
In urban Brazil, portarias–entry halls and porters lodges–and their staff absorb the circulation of people and goods as they pass between the streets and domestic spaces.
Q&A: Pressuring the World Bank to cut off factory farms
Sinergia Animal is an international animal protection organization working in countries of the Global South to reduce the suffering of farmed animals.
Dyslexia and the Reading Wars
Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?