We spoke to political scientist Marie Gottschalk about how corporate criminals have been let off the hook as prisons have exploded and what the path to ending mass incarceration might look like.
Pasta, a Weapon Against Fascism
When Benito Mussolini was ousted in 1943, a farming family called the Cervis celebrated by serving free helpings of pasta in the village square. It’s a ritual still repeated each July, upholding the community spirit at the heart of Italian antifascism.
In the Baltics, Rearmament Clashes With Regressive Taxes
In EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas’s homeland of Estonia, increased military spending is putting pressure on the national budget. What makes it worse is a regressive tax system, which is putting the costs of rearmament on the lowest-income households.
AI Is a Product of Humanity. Humanity Should Own AI.
Big Tech has looted humanity’s creative output to create artificial intelligence. We don’t just deserve a share of AI’s profits — we deserve control over it.
Lower the Voting Age
There’s no good reason not to change the US voting age from 18 to 16. Expanding the franchise isn’t just good for democracy — it offers the Left a significant opportunity to build its forces.
American Freedom Was Built on Endless Conquest
The Founders made expansion the precondition of American freedom. We must find an alternative.
Jonathan Chait’s Atlantic essay claims the Democratic Socialists of America has betrayed the legacy of its founder, Michael Harrington. It gets DSA’s history, and what the organization is today, wrong.
We Can’t Rely on Green Capital for Decarbonization
Under Joe Biden, green capitalists primarily sold commodities to help wealthier homeowners decarbonize. Real climate action will require a much more robust public-oriented politics of public investment, public goods, and public ownership.
Britain’s General Strike Was Class Struggle at Its Rawest
This year marks the centenary of the 1926 general strike, the biggest episode of class struggle in British history. The response of Britain’s rulers showed their iron determination to keep the working class in its social and political place.
Only International Solidarity Can Free Palestine
Given the structural constraints they face, the path to liberation for Palestinians does not run through armed struggle. Liberation will require the kind of sustained international solidarity that isolated apartheid South Africa.
Norway’s Vikings Are Reclaiming Valhalla at the World Cup
The far right spent a century claiming the Vikings. Norway’s World Cup team — horned helmets, runes, a viral row-chant and all — just took them back.
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.
Who Is Ukraine’s Recovery Really For?
The recent Ukraine Recovery Conference again saw governments and financial institutions discuss the country’s postwar reconstruction. Organized labor was absent, even as Kyiv introduces a new labor code undermining workers’ protections.
Austria’s Communists Have Defended Red Graz
Since 2021, the Communist Party’s Elke Kahr has been mayor of Austria’s second-largest city, Graz. In local elections June 28, voters passed a positive verdict on her five years in power, giving the Communists an even stronger majority.
Neo-Nazis Have Never Found It Easier to Join the US Army
Since the war on terror, the US Army has been increasingly lax in allowing neo-Nazis and white supremacists to join. It’s allowing them to gain combat experience and lay the basis for a militarized far right.
AI Is Contributing to the Gigification of Work
Bosses have desired ways to cut labor costs since time immemorial. Artificial-intelligence hype provides a powerful new excuse to replace stable employment with gig work.