The Rise and Fall of the Working Families Party
The WFP could have been a viable progressive force, but it lacked confidence in its own agenda.
19274 Articles by: Elizabeth Mahony
Wall Street Isn’t Worth It
Cutting the banks down to size is good policy and good politics.
The Reactionary Sports Drug War
Steroids will continue to debase sports as long as the war against them solely targets players.
Homeland and the Imagination of National Security
Homeland’s key accomplishment is to naturalize the workings of the national security state in the Obama era.
Art and Cynicism
We hear throughout mainstream culture that we are permanently doomed to a squalid future. Artists should insist otherwise.
A Teachable Mayor
Bill de Blasio is no radical, but his election may be a sign that space is opening up for the left in New York City.
The Sicilian Klan
Founded on hostility towards peasants and workers, the mafia has always been a vicious, reactionary organization — middlemen for both landowners of the feudal era and the oligarchs of today’s capitalism.
A Statement on the Arrest of Rasmea Yousef Odeh
On the recent arrest and indictment of the longtime Palestine activist.
Doug Ireland (1946–2013)
On the death of radical journalist and LGBTQ activist Doug Ireland.
“You Can Sleep Here All Night”: Video Games and Labor
Exploitation in the video game industry provides a glimpse at how many of us may be working in years to come.
Sharecropping in the Cloud
Rather than benefiting all, cloud computing’s main innovation will be enhanced control for technological rentiers.
Gawker’s Crack Addiction
Gawker’s harping on Rob Ford’s crack use is laced with the drug’s racial and class associations.
Socialism in One Village
Spain’s Marinaleda may not quite be a utopia, but it beats “reality” hands-down.
Wells Fargo’s Makeover
Wells Fargo has found a way to spin its history of racist and predatory lending into public relations gold.
A Confederacy of Kidnappers
12 Years a Slave rightly grounds slavery in economic exploitation, but reflects our era’s painful uncertainty about how that exploitation can be opposed.
From Bandung to BRICs
Vijay Prashad’s Poorer Nations asks whether the Global South can pose a credible alternative to neoliberal development.
When Richard Nixon Met Karl Polanyi
On the Guaranteed Annual Income, Nixon turned to Polanyi.
Reclaiming Comrade Orwell
George Orwell has become a mirror into which any political position can look into and see itself staring back. But make no mistake — Orwell belongs to the Left.
A Different Kind of Shutdown
Does the Left have anything to learn from the Tea Party?
Sexual Liberation, Human Freedom
This century’s LGBTQ liberation movement must be part of a broader project to redefine human freedom.