 In the first issue or "Radical Society", the editors wrote that the inspirations for the journal were "both old and new--from "The Masses" and Emma Goldman's "Mother Earth" to the Harlem Renaissance and the Paris Commune, from the end of the cold war to the beginnings of a new global justice movement".Sorin Oprescu

Sorin Mircea Oprescu (; born 7 November 1951) is a Romanian independent politician and medical doctor who was Mayor of Bucharest between 2008 and 2015.Oprescu first ran for Mayor of Bucharest in 1998 backed by the Party of Social Democracy in Romania (PDSR), the precursor to the modern-day Social Democratic Party (PSD).