Donald Trump wants to destroy the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship. But before he sought to eliminate it outright, his elite predecessors mangled, misread, and misused the amendment in the service of capital.
You can’t understand the chaos of Brexit without understanding the fundamentals of the European Union.
Previous estimates suggested that Medicare for All would save $2 trillion. But it’s even better: a new study finds that Bernie Sanders’s bill would save $5.1 trillion — while providing universal, comprehensive coverage.
New York’s transit workers have enormous leverage over Amazon. But to use it, they will have to break with Andrew Cuomo.
We don’t need another photogenic media star with run-of-the-mill liberal politics running for president. Beto O’Rourke should stay in Texas.
Richmond, California has become a bastion of independent working-class politics. And its organizers want even more.
The disastrous fires in California expose the absurdity of a system that ignores nature, flouts climate change, and builds entire towns that will inevitably burn.
AMLO takes the reins of a traumatized Mexico. He’ll be fighting for vital reforms, but much more is needed.
Leftist president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador takes office today in Mexico. Here, he explains how privatization has pillaged the public — and calls for a break with the neoliberal order.
Brazil’s fascist president loves to say that “a good thug is a dead thug.” But the saying didn’t start with him — it has deep roots in Brazil’s violent, racist political economy.
Capitalism is bad at sex because it’s bad at relationships. Socialism can do better.
CNN fired Marc Lamont Hill for daring to tell the truth: the Israeli occupation is a brutal, indefensible attack on Palestinians’ basic human rights.
France’s “yellow vest” protests against fuel prices weren’t organized by the Left. But the fight to widen their demands is key to blocking the growth of Marine Le Pen’s far right.
State socialism was proof: when women have economic independence from men, they don’t stick around in bad relationships.
The life of Harry Leslie Smith, a working-class rebel to the end, was a towering monument to socialist compassion, internationalism, and peace.
Social media will always be destructive for the Left. We should log the fuck off.
Economic historian Adam Tooze on a decade of shattered illusions and the limits of the neoliberal imagination.
How a decade of crisis changed economics.
US immigration and refugee policy has long been determined by what is most politically beneficial to the US — not who actually deserves protection.
Hillary Clinton has called on Europe to harden its borders. The strategy is completely wrong, but it’s also already underway — the EU is outsourcing border enforcement to states in Africa and the Middle East.