Cristina Groeger is a history professor at Lake Forest College and a member of the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America.
From 1976 to 1989, Hai Fan was a guerrilla fighter in the ranks of the Malayan Communist Party. His short story collection, Delicious Hunger, humanizes his comrades — and artfully portrays the tragedy of their struggle.
As Zohran Mamdani mounts a surging campaign for NYC mayor, his bid is becoming a model to replicate for the next wave of the US left. Can he expand his appeal to working-class demographics the Left has so far struggled to reach?
Some European states have recently started using more critical language about Israel’s genocidal onslaught against Gaza, rhetorically distancing themselves from the US line. But their ongoing record of complicity speaks louder than their words.
Donald Trump is on the brink of a war with Iran that wouldn’t be good for Israel, the United States, civilians on all sides, or even his own political future. But because of his inability to stand up to Israel, it may not matter.
Speculation isn’t the cause of our great stagnation — it’s how the system tries to outrun it.
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Britain’s young people no longer want to be doctors, lawyers, or engineers. They just want to collect rent.
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A growing number of companies want to bankroll your lawsuit.
The top 10% of earners account for almost half of all consumer spending in the United States. Wealth concentration has made economic stability shockingly reliant on elite consumption.
University finances are structured to insulate education from the whims of politics — at the expense of students, workers, and the rest of us.
Robert Francis Prevost, the first US-born pope, embodies Catholicism’s anti-nationalist ethos. Will he follow Pope Francis in confronting the resurgence of nativism in the US and abroad?
In the second half of the 20th century, as raising taxes came to spell political suicide, states looked to a new source of revenue: lotteries.
American labor’s finances have never been stronger. And yet its horizons have never been narrower.
The history of speculation is replete with burst bubbles.
In the late 1920s, the great Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein made notes for a dream project: Das Kapital, the film.
Real estate developers make massive profits off Israeli land seizures — and encourage brazen settlement building deep in the West Bank.
The mirage of Islamic banking.
The EU’s market for carbon credits is still a market — and it’s plagued by fraud and speculation.
Crypto-based video games like Axie Infinity are no fun for the Filipinos who play them for a living.