Critics of French left-winger Jean-Luc Mélenchon have repeatedly claimed that he’s finished. But as he launches his latest presidential campaign, his popularity among working-class and minority voters is again making him a real contender.
Everyone Loves the Knicks. Everyone Hates James Dolan.
The awful billionaire James Dolan’s stranglehold on one of sports’ greatest franchises is holding the New York Knicks back. The solution? Yes, that’s right: public ownership of the Knicks.
Donald Trump Is Accidentally Speeding the Green Transition
Donald Trump’s policies, especially his war on Iran, are having the unintended effect of accelerating the very green transition project he scorns. The Left must ensure the renewable energy build-out advances the well-being of the US working class.
Financial Speculators See Big Opportunities in Puerto Rico
Without full sovereignty, Puerto Rico is significantly constrained in its ability to design independent fiscal or monetary policies — leaving the island vulnerable to tourism investments that are becoming increasingly financialized.
Kill Dick Attempts the Great OxyContin Novel
In Luke Goebel’s much-hyped novel Kill Dick, a rich dropout is hooked on OxyContin, a drug manufactured by her lawyer dad’s biggest client. Aptly set in a strange and soporific Los Angeles, it captures the degradation of American society and interior life.
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.
Class War on the Red Carpet
The Cannes Film Festival might seem like an elite event, but it has deep roots in anti-fascism and the labor movement. Its early history in the years after World War II tells us how cinema can truly belong to the working class.
In Hawaii, Uber Is Creating a Tax Shelter for Itself
Ridesharing behemoth Uber has quietly amassed billions of dollars in a Hawaii-based shell company, ostensibly reserved for insurance liability. This “reserve” could be used to sidestep taxes and fund Uber’s robotaxi projects.
Reforming Capitalism Is Not Enough
The era of class compromise is never coming back. Any serious democratic socialist politics must pursue a politics of rupture with capitalism.
America Brings the World Cup to a New Low
Other recent World Cup hosts used sports to prettify their image. But Donald Trump isn’t so much “sportswashing” as using the World Cup to show off the United States’ ability to discriminate against other teams and their fans.
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.
South Africa's Left Can Rebuild — If It Rejects Corruption
The South African left today is dominated by parties of patronage and corruption and small sectarian groupings. If the Left is to rebuild itself, it needs to break with these elements and forge a movement committed to emancipatory working-class politics.
Trump Is Pressing Lawyers to Share Info on Migrant Children
The Trump administration is withholding pay from legal aid groups while demanding they share confidential case data about the unaccompanied migrant children whom immigration enforcement agencies are trying to deport.
Albanians Are Against Jared Kushner’s Israel-Linked Venture
Albania’s government is one of the most toadyish allies to Donald Trump and Israel. Yet as Jared Kushner seeks to tarmac a protected nature reserve in the country, Albanians are saying no to their cronyish government and its international allies.
The Attacks on Graham Platner Are Politically Motivated
Graham Platner’s critics are operating with a politically motivated double standard.