Opening the Door to the Far Right
Sunday’s election in Sweden shows how the decline of robust social-democratic guarantees can feed the rise of the far right.
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Let’s Take Elizabeth Warren Literally, But Not Seriously
Elizabeth Warren’s so-called Accountable Capitalism Act is a ruse. But it creates an unexpected opening for the Left.
Today and Forever, Rahm Emanuel Is Garbage
By fighting him tooth and nail for seven years, Chicagoans have established that Rahm Emanuel is garbage. No matter what he does next, that stench isn’t coming off.
Why Canadian Prisoners Are Participating in the US Prison Strike
Much of the US prison system’s distinguishing features — massive racial disparities, the exploitation of prisoners’ labor by private firms, overcrowding, brutality, and much more — are the same in Canada.
The Latest Incarnation of Capitalism
Financialization isn’t a perversion of an otherwise well-functioning system. It’s just capitalism’s latest survival mechanism.
Cuomo’s Class-Warrior Act
Andrew Cuomo is battling a major corporation in a bid to get reelected. In the process, he’s accidentally showing the Left how to use the state to battle capital.
Reconstruction, 150 Years Later
In 1858, four million enslaved black people wielding political power in the American South would have seemed impossible. Ten years later, it became a reality.
Uber’s Big Lie
Uber has been given free rein to violate basic employment laws with impunity. We have to stop them.
The Biggest Trump Scandal So Far
The Trump administration’s response to Hurricane Maria was bungling, insulting, and ultimately murderous. For any other politician, it would have been a career-ending debacle.
A Lesson Plan for Organized Labor
This Labor Day, with public opinion firmly in favor of unions and teachers racking up victories across the country, the news for the labor movement is actually hopeful.
Argentina’s Anticapitalist Feminism
A bill to legalize abortion narrowly failed in the Argentinian Senate. But feminist movements have already effected a social revolution in South America.
The Movement Against “Modern Day Slavery”
American prisons are barbaric. The national prisoners’ strike is a righteous response to those horrendous conditions.
Muddying the Revolution
We should be honest about the Communist Party of the Philippines’ record, including its assassinations of left-wing activists.
When Union Leaders Don’t Want to Strike
Some New York union leaders have joined Governor Cuomo against public-sector workers’ right to strike. They’re picking political favors over bottom-up organizing.
France’s Changing Climate
Last year, French president Emmanuel Macron gave liberalism a hip young face. Now the golden boy’s shine has started to come off.
Welfare, But for CEOs
A new report shows how the United States is lining corporate executives’ pockets with tax dollars.
Disciplined and Punished
The European Memoranda imposing austerity on Greece came to an end last week. But the country still has no way out of its crisis.
The John McCain of India
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India’s “statesmanlike” far-right leader, died this month. The praise showered on him by Indian liberals shows how far to the right the country has moved.
In Defense of Air-Conditioning
Opposition to air-conditioning is just another form of austerity politics. Nothing’s too good for the working class — especially not freedom from the heat.
The Crisis That Created Putin
Twenty years ago, a crisis of Russian capitalism doomed Moscow’s pro-Western regime and gave birth to the Putin era.