“The robots are coming” need not be understood as heralding the apocalypse. An automated society in which states and worker-owned enterprises use technology to serve public ends while meeting individual needs is entirely consistent with the good life.
Scotland Has No Escape Route From Britain’s Political Crisis
The Scottish National Party won its 5th consecutive term in office last week. But the party’s tepid brand of centrism still looks worn out, and the only big advances came for Reform on the right and the Greens on the left.
Americans: We’re Broke. Donald Trump: No, You’re Not.
Donald Trump and the Republicans are insisting the economy is great and unhappy Americans are deluded. Just like Democrats under Joe Biden, they’re lying to themselves and everyone else — and will eventually pay the price.
Trump’s Deportations of Palestine Activist Students Aren't Over
After successfully challenging deportation orders in court last year, Palestinian student activists Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi are facing renewed attacks from the Trump administration. Their persecution is meant to chill political speech broadly.
Montreal’s Guillotine Gate Is a Tempest in a Teapot
The pearl-clutching hysterics from Quebec’s chattering classes over a labor group’s decapitation of a papier-mâché dummy reveal less about political violence than about ruling-class fragility.
The Making of the Teenager
The teenager we know today came of age in the postwar era — but she owes her existence to the New Deal.
Socialism cannot mean merely managing capitalism more fairly. It must point toward a society where survival is no longer contingent on the market — and where democracy extends into the economy itself.
Nobody Wants Data Centers in Their Backyard
New polling shows that most Americans hate the prospect of data centers being built in their communities. The opposition is entirely predictable, not least because data centers seem to offer little benefit to people living near them.
Boys, Beasts, and a Bloated Lord of the Flies
Jack Thorne’s Netflix adaptation of Lord of the Flies drowns William Golding’s brutal clarity in arty excess, muddled psychology, and a strangely sentimental plea for sympathy for boys.
British Fascist Tommy Robinson Is Taking to the Streets Again
September’s Unite the Kingdom rally was the largest far-right demonstration in modern British history. This Saturday, fascist influencer Tommy Robinson will again lead a vile mob through London streets, protected by police.
Socialism Has a Future. Central Planning Doesn’t.
Central planners had a rational vision: replace the anarchy of the market with conscious coordination. Vivek Chibber explains why calculation and incentive problems undermined that vision, but a different sort of socialism can still flourish.
Neoliberalism didn’t win an intellectual argument — it won power. Vivek Chibber unpacks how employers and political elites in the 1970s and ’80s turned economic turmoil into an opportunity to reshape society on their terms.
Philly Wants to Send a Socialist to Congress
Philadelphia congressional candidate Chris Rabb is candid about his democratic socialist politics, saying, “Socialists need to expose the role of both parties in our crisis and point toward a future where the working class holds power.”
Gustavo Petro’s Last Push to Phase Out Fossil Fuels
Colombia hosted a global summit on phasing out fossil fuels last month. Gustavo Petro’s left-wing government is confronting powerful oil and mining interests, but making Western countries follow suit is not easy.
Corporate Democrats Still Don’t Understand Housing
Cambridge socialist City Councilor Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler argues that solving the housing crisis means building more homes while fighting for affordability and tenant power.
How Mohammed Mossadegh’s Liberal Anti-Imperialism Collapsed
In the 1950s, Iran’s secular government nationalized its oil reserves as part of its anti-imperialist agenda. Its overthrow by the US and UK, enabled by Iranian business and religious elites, paved the way for the reactionary revolution that later replaced it.