The current gerrymandering wars underscore fundamental problems with the United States’ electoral system. The Fair Representation Act, a bill to establish proportional representation in US House elections, offers a way out of this impasse.
Socialism Requires Work That Is Meaningful, Mutual, and Free
Karl Marx dismissed speculation about a future socialist society as “writing recipes for the cookshops of the future.” A closer reading suggests he had a rich vision of the good life, based in the idea that people flourish by meeting each other’s needs.
Does Avi Lewis’s NDP Mark a Comeback of Canada’s Left?
Avi Lewis’s election to leadership of the NDP is a welcome development. But if the party wants to be a real vehicle for working-class politics, changes at the top are only part of the equation.
Who Monitors the UAW’s Federal Monitor?
Shawn Fain’s reform administration in the United Auto Workers now finds itself locked in conflict with a federal anti-corruption monitor that Fain says is overstepping his bounds — including in opposing the union’s stance against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Before 1776, There Was 1649
What Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution meant to America’s revolutionaries.
American Freedom Was Built on Endless Conquest
The Founders made expansion the precondition of American freedom. We must find an alternative.
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.
Pro-Palestine Candidates Are Winning Up and Down the Ballot
Tuesday’s election showed us three things: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s victory was not a fluke, grassroots organizing by progressive groups and unions can overcome big money, and unapologetic support for Palestinian freedom can be a winning campaign message.
Yes, Workers Want Progressive Economics
But progressives need to be careful about how they pitch their appeals to workers.
The White House Was Never Really the People’s House
Popular access to and control over the White House has reached historic lows. There are grander spatial testaments to democracy to be seen in Washington, DC.
Contemporary Capitalism Is Brutally Competitive
Advocates of the “political capitalism” and “monopoly capital” theories argue that capitalism is stagnating, increasingly unproductive, and dominated by rent-seeking. These are flawed diagnoses that put socialist strategy on the wrong track.
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.
Tony Mazzocchi Was a Champion of Worker-Whistleblowers
Tony Mazzocchi was instrumental in reshaping workplace health and safety — a feat made possible by empowering workers themselves to expose hazardous conditions. Recent attacks on OSHA underscore the importance and continued relevance of his work.
Congress Uses Cargo Theft to Justify More ICE Surveillance
A bill now in Congress, written ostensibly to address large-scale cargo theft, contains a provision granting ICE broad exemptions to collect federally protected commercial data. The loophole would expand ICE’s already vast surveillance apparatus.
Dutch No-Nonsense Neoliberalism Is, Indeed, Nonsense
For decades, the Netherlands’ “no-nonsense” model of neoliberalism has been the poster child for free-market reforms. Yet for all the rhetoric of national unity, this model has forced long periods of austerity and the organized looting of public services.
American Freedom Was Built on Endless Conquest
The Founders made expansion the precondition of American freedom. We must find an alternative.