Assessing Robert Conquest
Historian Robert Conquest was a fierce critic of Stalinist brutality, but Cold War anticommunism hampered his scholarship.
20383 Article(s) by: Benjamin Case
Benjamin Case is a researcher, educator, and organizer living in Pittsburgh.
Allende’s Poet
Victor Jara was tortured and killed for being the musical voice of Allende’s Chile. Now his murderer may finally be brought to justice.
Lessons From Vermont
Five things a Vermont third party can teach us about carving out a space to the left of the Democrats.
How Labour Can Win
Campaigning for Jeremy Corbyn isn’t enough. The Labour Party must be transformed into a vehicle of popular democracy.
Rank and File
Without a socialist left, both inside and outside of unions, organized labor will continue to lose ground.
After the Friedrichs Scare
US public sector unions have gotten a reprieve. Will they use it to rebuild, or squander the opportunity?
The Long Road to Crisis
The dismantling of autoworker gains was a class project, not the inevitable result of globalization.
The Bullies’ Club
Just like Trump, UFC president Dana White built his fortune off exploitation and union-busting. No wonder they’re friends.
Planning for Disaster
Community climate-adaptation initiatives preserve and build on stark geographic inequalities.
From Reagan to Trump
Donald Trump’s brand of reaction is particularly noxious, but it sits comfortably in the Reagan tradition.
The Wrong Answer
The Turkish military isn’t a friend to democracy or progress, and never has been.
Disrupting Uber
Driver-owned apps could end Uber’s exploitative reign over the ride-share market.
Hollywood’s End Times
Independence Day: Resurgence reflects how little vision Hollywood — and neoliberalism — have left.
Good-bye, Indonesia
West Papua is fighting for independence from Indonesia — but will it win regional solidarity for its efforts?
The Olympic War on Drugs
The ban on performance-enhancing drugs is fueled by moral panic, not medicine.
The Art of Politics
Debates during the rise of Margaret Thatcher can tell us much about how to respond to our political moment.
What Happened to the Pink Tide?
Latin America’s “pink tide” governments challenge neoliberalism and US hegemony, but leave the basic structures of capitalism intact.
Inside the CIA’s Penal Colonies
Declassified CIA documents reveal a deadly security state operating far outside the bounds of democratic control.
Taking Back Control
Old ways of thinking about mass democratic politics won’t cut it in today’s globalized, atomized society.
Obama on Obamacare
President Obama’s new paper defending the Affordable Care Act only shows why we need single-payer health care.