The Reactionary Sports Drug War
Steroids will continue to debase sports as long as the war against them solely targets players.
19372 Articles by: Frances Abele
Frances Abele CM is Distinguished Research Professor and Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy Emerita at Carleton University. She is a research fellow at the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation and the Broadbent Institute. Much of her work focuses on indigenous-Canada relations.
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.
Adbusted
Behind the bizarre ideology that fuels Adbusters.
Robert Taft: “Moderate” and McCarthyite
Robert Taft would have felt at home among today’s Senate reactionaries.