Cristina Groeger is a history professor at Lake Forest College and a member of the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America.
Rahm Emanuel’s “public-private partnership” with Elon Musk looks a lot like the parking meter privatization that still haunts Chicago. That’s no accident: such partnerships are massive giveaways to corporations.
Why do African teams struggle in the World Cup? It has everything to do with colonialism.
Trump might get all the attention, but South Korean president Moon Jae-in is the real key to securing peace on the peninsula.
The outrage over Trump’s heartless family separation policy provides an opportunity to reverse the bipartisan consensus that has long victimized immigrants.
Socialists believe not only that capitalism is an oppressive, undemocratic system, but that there’s a viable, humane alternative.
The life of French General Jacques Pâris de Bollardière shows how the strongest voices against war and militarism can come from the military’s own ranks.
How bad is the housing crisis? Even the cheapest rental units are usually out of reach for low-income workers.
From fare strikes to sick outs, movements are deploying a variety of creative tactics to disrupt business as usual.
Bizarre cults. Anticommunist paranoia. Facebook stalking. Meet Trevor Loudon, founder of the antisocialist website KeyWiki.
Canada is not immune to the rise of right-wing populism. Case in point: the recent election of Doug Ford as Premier of Ontario after years of Liberal rule.
Catalans helped Pedro Sánchez become president. How will he respond?
The Middle East is a complicated place. But the worst way to understand it is through the lens of “tribalism.”
A look at the radical Vietnam-era research collective that exposed US companies profiteering off the war.
Leftist candidate Gustavo Petro’s success shows that whatever happens in Colombia’s elections today, change has come to the country.
Conservatives like to claim that Nordic countries succeed because they have low regulation. That’s nonsense.
“The workers and the boss have nothing in common. It is a class question.”
Our Revolution president Nina Turner on the Democratic Party, immigration reform, democratic socialism, and a Sanders 2020 presidential run.
The far right won elections this month in Slovenia. Can the Left mount a challenge?
Stories about a new age of precarity are overblown. Workers have had to deal with economic insecurity since the dawn of capitalism.
Tenant organizers in New York’s Chinatown are challenging the city’s pro-landlord policies.