Abigail Torre grew up in Chile and now lives in Berkeley, California where she is cochair of the East Bay chapter of Democratic Socialists of America.
Richard Epstein, the libertarian legal scholar, has helpfully chimed into the discussion about the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed over 1100 people so far by zeroing in on who’s really to blame: the workers.
Mocking hipsters in the service of capital.
“Nathan Leopold is not the only boy who has read Nietzsche.”
The Taliban want to end democracy in Pakistan. The state won’t be able to stop them.
On the Italian Communist Party and the path not taken between the horrors of state socialism and the bankruptcy of modern social democracy.
Star Trek meets anti–Star Trek in California District Court, as a science fiction-loving judge demolishes a gang of copyright trolls.
In Behind the Kitchen Door, Saru Jayaraman finally reveals what many of the 10 million people who work in the rapidly growing U.S. restaurant industry face daily while cooking and serving food.
Radical critique from an unexpected source — the head of currency trading at a major Wall Street firm considers global capital markets.
Edmund Burke to Niall Ferguson: You know nothing of my work. You mean my whole theory is wrong. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing.
In this interview, the fate of European social democracy, among other topics, are discussed.
Michael Harrington was wrong about a lot of things, but not quite in the way Joe Allen describes.
Pitching jokes to Joan Rivers for $500 a week.
The Muslim community has been continuously reminded by the media since 9/11 that the primary duty of an acceptable Muslim is to continuously condemn the behavior of a tiny minority of coreligionists.
A new New Deal alliance would bode well for the liberal-left, but rejuvenating American liberalism will only be a means to an end.
For the Left, it will no longer do simply to be anti-austerity.
The tools that make our increasingly digital markets efficient might constitute a vital part of a more modern, complex and egalitarian future financial system.
The development of rentism entails not just a change in the laws, but in the way the economy itself is measured and defined.
The Chicago teachers’ strike was a victory for workers around the country. But how do we move from homegrown resistance to a national movement that could ignite a shift in public policy?
Behind American auto’s latest PR campaign lies a bleak economic reality.
