As Keir Starmer purges the left and dances to Nigel Farage’s xenophobic tune, I look at how Labour's mounting failures created an opening for @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social @zarahsultana.bsky.social to found a new left-wing party. Check out my latest for @thenation.com

Recently read #AnotherWorldisPossible by @natashakimiz.bsky.social - it is equal parts inspiring, challenging, hopeful, and actionable. It’s the perfect book for the current moment - highly recommend to the other freedom dreamers out there. Read my full review on Substack ❤️

This episode was fascinating - so many examples of countries who took big steps to improve the lives of their people.

This is an INCREDIBLE episode. Why do 80% of people in Singapore live in government-built housing? Why is graduate school free in Finland? Why does over 98% of Uruguay run on renewable energy?? Absolutely LOVED this. open.spotify.com/episode/3R5s...

I’m looking forward to diving into @natashakimiz.bsky.social ‘s debut book, full of real-world examples that democratic socialist policies can (and do) work.

Beyond thrilled to announce ANOTHER CITY IS POSSIBLE (a follow up of sorts to my first book on progressive policies through a more local lens) is forthcoming from @thenewpress.bsky.social ! So grateful to Marc Favreau, Rob McQuilkin, and everyone at The New Press and MMQALit.

Fantastic conversation with Vincent Bevins and packed audience last night in London's Libreria for the UK launch of Another World Is Possible ( @thenewpress.bsky.social )

A great evening with @natashakimiz.bsky.social with her really hopeful book ‘Another World Is Possible’ * UK’s universal healthcare * Finland’s universal public education * Singapore’s affordable housing for all * Norway’s equalising childcare responsibilities and parental leave

"Hakimi Zapata asks us not to despair no matter how dire circumstances may be, and draws examples from around the world to remind us that change is achievable." Read Yassmin Abdel-Magied's interview w/ @natashakimiz.bsky.social about ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE! adimagazine.com/articles/nat...

If you live in states like Missouri, Alaska, Nebraska and others that passed progressive measures like paid sick leave through citizen-led initiatives, beware of how Republicans are actively undermining / dismantling this form of direct democracy: www.propublica.org/article/red-...

Had such a great conversation with @nathanjrobinson.bsky.social for @currentaffairs.bsky.social . Check out the full interview at the link and keep your eyes peeled for my piece in the print May/June edition of CA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=McoR...

THIS is what I mean when I say over and over again Americans are getting a bad deal. In the wealthiest country in the history of the planet, how is it that 2/3 of the population can't afford to get by?!

Honored to be nominated for a Southern California Journalism Award by the @lapressclub.bsky.social in the immigration reporting category for my @thenation.com piece "The Recent Riots in the UK Should Be a Warning to Kamala Harris." www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Uruguay’s late former President Pepe Mujica did so much for Uruguay, including lifting thousands out of poverty during his tenure and playing a critical role in the country’s record-breaking renewable energy transition @thenation.com @thenewpress.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Do you believe that Another World is Possible? Join us for an author reading and Q&A with @natashakimiz.bsky.social to talk about her book ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE: Lessons for America From Around the Globe. This conversation takes place on May 18th at 1PM CT Register here - bit.ly/FBCawip

“one of the most obvious answers to the city’s deepening housing crisis remains absent from plans and political promises: public housing.”

In my latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social I write about how the most obvious answer to Los Angeles' deepening housing crisis remains absent from post-fire plans and political promises: public housing. jacobin.com/2025/05/la-f...

Creating a crisis to sell the solution. The Shock Doctrine on steroids

AWIP's Norway chapter on paid parental leave (specifically its "daddy quota") gets a nice long shoutout in this excellent @jacobinmag.bsky.social piece by Meagan Day

Listen to an interview with ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE author @natashakimiz.bsky.social on @wbur.org's On Point about the lessons the U.S. can learn from other countries about how to tackle issues such as inequality, health care and homelessness ow.ly/9zLy50VlKoO

Wow. No wonder so many Zoomers have slipped into irony, post-truth, and nihilism. Dark times.

congratulations to john roberts who is as responsible for the current state of affairs as any single person in the country

No, average Americans don't need to pay more than we already do to have better public services and programs like universal health care, paid parental leave, and more ... Mythbusting and more over at @jacobinmag.bsky.social with the inimitable Meagan Day.

As new leftist leader Yamandú Orsi takes power in Uruguay, @thenation.com featured my reporting on the green energy transition that his Frente Amplio predecessors incredibly achieved in less than a decade: www.thenation.com/article/worl...

SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

huge W

This is no different than the Republican agenda every year of my lifetime and before that, and Democrats would do well to remind the public of this instead of lionizing Reagan, Bush, Cheney, etc. Stop exceptionalizing Trump/MAGA. This is a longstanding Republican project.

Cannot BELIEVE anyone is buying the absurd lie that Social Security is a ponzi scheme. All American residents have paid for it their entire work lives—as we do with everything paid for with public money through general taxation. (1/

MARCH 12: VIRTUAL EVENT with BOOL CO-OP. For those of you who couldn’t make it out to in-person events, join us on Zoom to discuss *Another World Is Possible* ( @thenewpress.bsky.social ) Register here for login details: www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-bo...

LA! Closing out my US tour with the fabulous Meagan Day (@jacobinmag.bsky.social) at Village Well Books + Coffee Culver City tonight at 7 pm. Come through! www.eventbrite.com/e/another-wo...

"Illuminating. . . . Fascinating and inspiring." - Publishers Weekly on the newly published ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE by @natashakimiz.bsky.social ow.ly/En2w50UoAjl

“I knew we could do better in the U.S. because I had seen better elsewhere—we don’t have to cut from whole cloth to build the world we need.” — @natashakimiz.bsky.social

strongly agreed with Cara. some of y'all talk like you have hidden a spare population of unproblematic, unpropagandized people to build a mass movement out of under your couch cushions or something.

This is tonight! Join @natashakimiz.bsky.social, @sarahlazare.bsky.social, @asha-rrs.bsky.social and @alexhan.bsky.social at 6:30pm! Details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/another-wo...

Kleptocracy

the cruelty is the point

Would LOVE to see ranked-choice ballots in the US!

For those of you in the DC area, I’ll be at Solid State Books tonight to chat with @natashakimiz.bsky.social about her phenomenal new book! Details here: www.solidstatebooksdc.com/events/2025/...

Baltimore! See you Wednesday Feb. 12 for a conversation with @ositanwanevu.bsky.social at @redemmas.org about Another World Is Possible. RSVP: redemmas.org/events/natas...

Chicago, join us next week for a discussion with @natashakimiz.bsky.social about imagining and building another world. RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/another-wo...

Elon didn't invent PayPal or Tesla, and he didn't even come up with his own megalomaniacal anarcho-capitalist project, Curtis Yarvin did. Has the man ever had an original thought?

“Zapata debuts with an illuminating survey of how America’s most pressing social issues have been handled by other countries.” - Read a review of newly published ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE by @natashakimiz.bsky.social in Publishers Weekly ow.ly/En2w50UoAjl

This is a blatant lie. Per ITEP, unauthorized immigrants paid $99.6 *billion* in taxes in 2022, without about a third of the money going toward Social Security and Medicare - two benefits they *cannot* access as non-citizens.

Philly! See you on Sunday at 4:30 pm at Making Worlds Cooperative for a conversation with @kimkelly.bsky.social Register: withfriends.co/event/227542...

Launched Another World Is Possible last night with @sunraysunray.bsky.social (who was, of course, brilliant) at P&T Knitwear. So grateful to @thenewpress.bsky.social , Bhaskar and everyone who came out last night (it was packed) to talk a bit about hopeful but practical solutions to America’s woes.

In honor of @sofiawarrenart.bsky.social joining BlueSky, posting this lovely illustration she made at the NY launch of AWIP last night! Cannot wait to frame it!

💙📚 #newbooksday #librarylife #ilovemyjob @jgiesber.bsky.social @natashakimiz.bsky.social @jamesponti.bsky.social @eoinhiggins.bsky.social @melrobbins.bsky.social @kylelukoff.bsky.social @authorvcm.bsky.social Et al. ☺️

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