Shinjini Dey defines the trans-historical aesthetic category of Darjeeling, a place where tourists use cell phone videos and buying power to preserve the colonial imaginary and where local workers constantly, anxiously, recreate that imaginary anew.

A spectre is haunting Marxism—the spectre of a cat.

Sarah Jaffe on Donald Trump’s Rust Belt “Mission Accomplished” moment and the need for a struggle where “we need not affirm our own exploitation to justify our existence.”