In “The Enemies of 1776,” Dylan Saba marks the nation's 250th by examining the long continuity in the U.S.’s genocidal wars on the global frontier—from the Indian Wars, the Philippines, and Vietnam to the Israeli-U.S. genocide in Gaza. proteanmag.com/2026/07/27/t...

The Enemies of 1776 • Protean Magazine

In "The Enemies of 1776", Dylan Saba traces the long history of the US's genocidal wars and pacification operations in the global frontier—from the Indian Wars, to the War in Vietnam, to the Israeli-U...

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For almost a decade, we raised the funds for writer pay and print runs by offering pre-orders, which served as an annual fundraiser. That’s no longer viable. If Protean is going to continue as a forum for the left, we’re going to need our readers’ help. patreon.com/proteanmag

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Our aim is to ensure Protean remains a reliable presence on the left. To do so, we’re moving away from our pre-sale system to a subscription model. Subscribe at these Patreon tiers using the below link—you’ll receive Issue 6 and more. Digital: $2/month Print: $5+/month patreon.com/proteanmag

"Our work is being eroded, outsourced, deskilled, and informalized—so what are we, together, going to do about it? This question is the animating force of Beneath the Wage." proteanmag.com/2026/07/08/s...

Solidarity in the Age of Service Work • Protean Magazine

Flora Arnold and Lauren Hough review Annie McClanahan's “Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work.” Often assumed to be contemporary features of labor, McClanahan argues, mod...

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Sharing this beautiful review of @anniemcc.bsky.social’s Beneath the Wage for @proteanmag.com , written by Flora Arnold and Lauren Hough. A real honor as F & L were two of my first graduate students, who recently graduated and are already doing such great things 🫶 proteanmag.com/2026/07/08/s...

Solidarity in the Age of Service Work • Protean Magazine

Flora Arnold and Lauren Hough review Annie McClanahan's “Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work.” Often assumed to be contemporary features of labor, McClanahan argues, mod...

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article on the farcical repugnant 250th, the material conditions subtending very incompetent party planning, and the grift within the grift (within the grift) truthout.org/articles/rep...

Report From House Dems: Trump Used 250th Planning to Hide Corruption

Trump’s Freedom 250 shadow organization was a vehicle for soliciting political donations, a new report contends.

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can't wait to see everyone....

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Protean Magazine is thrilled to be tabling at Socialism 2026 this year! See you in September!

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You would tend to think that being wealthy beyond imagination has to feel pretty good.

"People with wireframe glasses like mine seem to have a lot riding on this movie being really good." proteanmag.com/2026/02/24/t...

The Same Battle, Again • Protean Magazine

A.C. Corey unpacks the misguided revolutionary and cinematic hopes pinned on Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another"—each an expression of left melancholia and mania, of political and cultur...

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A.C. Corey unpacks the misguided revolutionary and cinematic hopes pinned on Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another"—each an expression of left melancholia and mania, of political and cultural restlessness, of the fantasy of resolution. proteanmag.com/2026/02/24/t...

The Same Battle, Again • Protean Magazine

A.C. Corey unpacks the misguided revolutionary and cinematic hopes pinned on Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another"—each an expression of left melancholia and mania, of political and cultur...

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Richard Hell's novel Godlike has been re-released by NYRB Classics. Andrew Holter spoke to Hell on his literary trajectory, the inevitable Rimbaud and (Tom) Verlaine comparisons (and other noms de plume), the New York School poets, and his fearlessness of influence. proteanmag.com/2026/02/13/a...

Anti-Convention: Richard Hell on Godlike • Protean Magazine

Richard Hell's novel Godlike has just been re-released with a new afterword by New York Review Books. Andrew Holter spoke to Hell on his literary trajectory as a novelist and street poet, the sometime...

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In "red script of questions," poet Ali Choudhary creates a harrowing dialogue with the children of Gaza as they continue to endure Israel's genocide. proteanmag.com/2026/02/11/r...

red script of questions • Protean Magazine

In "red script of questions," poet Ali Choudhary creates a harrowing dialogue with the children of Gaza as they continue to endure Israel's genocide.

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we have an especially extraordinary poem for you all today

Protean Magazine@proteanmag.com · 6mo ago

In "red script of questions," poet Ali Choudhary creates a harrowing dialogue with the children of Gaza as they continue to endure Israel's genocide. proteanmag.com/2026/02/11/r...

have to agree with Andy. we really really need our readers—our Patreon has dwindled to $1400 a month. that’s not enough to run a mag that pays writers fairly ($300+/piece). without this budget restraint, we could do so much more. if you have even $1/month, every giver helps! patreon.com/proteanmag

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Andy Carr@andycarr.bsky.social · 7mo ago

2025 was a helluva year for @proteanmag.com – and, if you are able to, you absolutely should chip in to support their work over the ✨year ahead✨, imo. it's become a tired cliché, but no less accurate to point out: truly independent, high-quality, leftist media could not be more indispensable.

This year marked the 8th anniversary of Protean's founding; it was also our busiest yet. Below is a selection of the best work that we published, online and in Issue V. As ever, readers' generosity is the only reason any of this is possible. Support us by becoming a patron: patreon.com/proteanmag

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This book by @lukeoneil47.bsky.social is full of beautiful, gut-wrenching prose. I'd call it Cormac McCarthy-esque.

Protean Magazine@proteanmag.com · 9mo ago

Three new short stories by Luke O’Neil (@lukeoneil47.bsky.social)—"The rules,” “How to live,” and “Something that was once potentially good”—are excerpted here. All three appear in his new book of stories, We Had it Coming and Other Fictions, now out from OR Books. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...

Wondering what work is like for all those tasked with delivering those last-minute Christmas gifts? For @proteanmag.com I wrote this on algorithmic management, logistics work, and the possibilities for class struggle at the tail end of the supply chain x.com/brechtfast/s...

In this wide-ranging interview, Laleh Khalili (@lalehkhalili.bsky.social) speaks with Thea Riofrancos (@triofrancos.bsky.social) about her new book, "Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism"—on lithium mining, prospects for a just climate transition, and more. proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...

Extractive Frontiers: An Interview With Thea Riofrancos • Protean Magazine

In this extensive, wide ranging interview, Laleh Khalili speaks with Thea Riofrancos about her new book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, the political economy of lithium mining, the poss...

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Please do not reply to me with a gif. If you reply to this post with a gif I will block you! Very small stakes but those are nonetheless the stakes.

Andrew Holter interviews Mitchell Abidor on his new book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary (@plutopress.bsky.social). "We in the Anglophone world have misunderstood some pretty important things about Serge"—including, Abidor claims, his late-life reactionary turn. proteanmag.com/2025/12/18/v...

Victor Serge, Turncoat? • Protean Magazine

Andrew Holter interviews Mitchell Abidor on Abidor's new book, Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary, out from Pluto Press. "It seems like we in the English-speaking world, at least, have misunderstood s...

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saw the term "Richardsonism" on the TL; if you want to read something actually useful about the phenomena of H*ather C*x R*chardson, may I suggest (in @proteanmag.com): proteanmag.com/2025/01/20/t...

The End of Resistance History • Protean Magazine

As the Biden administration is swept into the dustbin, Charlotte Rosen wonders: what was the liberal Hashtag-Resistance "Twitterstorian"? And, as a product of the first Trump term, what did commentato...

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we had a lot of fun picking books from Verso’s archive. and i got to talk about two absolute classics, Ellen M. Wood’s Origins of Capitalism and Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities. many thanks to Verso for showing us around and for letting us give our little mini-lectures

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VIDEO: The team behind @proteanmag.com (@jakeromm.bsky.social, @multiwhirl.bsky.social, @stevanzetti.bsky.social, and @walletcheck.bsky.social) visits our offices in New York City and makes their way through the Verso Archive, sharing some of the titles that have influenced their work.

VIDEO: The team behind @proteanmag.com (@jakeromm.bsky.social, @multiwhirl.bsky.social, @stevanzetti.bsky.social, and @walletcheck.bsky.social) visits our offices in New York City and makes their way through the Verso Archive, sharing some of the titles that have influenced their work.

Bayan Haddad (@BayanHaddad) remembers her former student Oudeh Hathaleen—a Palestinian teacher, father, and community leader, murdered by an Israeli settler. Haddad testifies against the inhuman colonial violence that was the antithesis of Oudeh's spirit. proteanmag.com/2025/12/08/o...

On World-Building: Lessons From a Martyred Teacher • Protean Magazine

Bayan Haddad once taught literature to Oudeh Hathaleen, who would become a teacher himself, as well as Palestinian community advocate and consultant on the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. In ...

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if you missed it—i want everyone to know about the extremely disturbing warrantless spying made possible by "Flock Safety," a policing surveillance startup that gives local cops (and even some corporations) an AI-enabled camera network, empowering them to follow individual drivers all around a city.

A Vast Camera System Now Feeds Information to Police on Drivers Across the US

Flock cameras have been called invasive, insecure, and unconstitutional. Can a grassroots movement beat them back?

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Truthout@truthout.org · 8mo ago

Security camera start-up Flock is estimated to consist of around 80,000 cameras in over 4,000 cities — with its key clients being law enforcement agencies, ranging from major metropolitan forces to small local police units, as well as private entities like retail corporations.

fucking hell. by which i mean to both swear like an Englishman and reiterate that we live in fucking hell

Truthout@truthout.org · 8mo ago

Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones. One recent Kalshi betting market that allowed people to bet on whether Palestinians in Gaza would suffer mass starvation.

this month marks Protean's 8th year. the mag has been wholly reliant on many, many hours of our free labor. output is also limited because we pay writers. i just lost my main day-job income (to AI, no less). unfortunately, without more support, it's just not viable to keep going like this forever.

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So glad to have been able to write about Solidarity with Children by @lalouverouge.bsky.social for @proteanmag.com. Special thanks to Tyler Walicek, an extraordinary editor.

Horizons of Youth Liberation • Protean Magazine

Sarah Brouillette reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's new book Solidarity With Children, out this month from Haymarket Books.Sarah Brouillette reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's new book Solidarity With Ch...

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i hope you'll read this compelling survey from Sarah Brouillette of the newest work from the always-astute and incisive Madeline Lane-McKinley—it's a tautly reasoned case for affording children greater rights and autonomy, reimagining social institutions that produce suffering and dehumanization.

Protean Magazine@proteanmag.com · 9mo ago

Sarah Brouillette (@sarahbrouillette.bsky.social) reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's (@lalouverouge.bsky.social) Solidarity With Children, from @haymarketbooks.org—a deft Marxist-feminist, abolitionist call to liberate children from the status of parental property. proteanmag.com/2025/11/19/h...