Pulling the Plug on Working Families
The Left must develop fully independent organizations outside of establishment channels.
19086 Articles by: Frantz Durupt
Frantz Durupt is a journalist at French daily Libération.
How Progressives Got Afghanistan Wrong
The “decent left” was wrong: a blood-soaked occupation did not lead to a promising post-Taliban future.
Infotainment Journalism
Shoddy infotainment journalism makes data something to sprinkle on top of your substanceless linkbait.
Power Play
We need to get down to the work of building a radical civil society.
The New Protest Era
We are at the beginning of a new period of mass protests that will reshape American politics.
Bulletproof Neoliberalism
To understand how a body of thought became an era of capitalism requires more than intellectual history.
A Red with an FBI Badge
On reactionary novelist James Ellroy and his Underworld USA trilogy’s surprising treatment of communism and anticommunism.
Change the People
A recent book on musician Fred Ho reveals some starting points for a modern radical avant-garde.
Reading Jhumpa Lahiri Politically
Jhumpa Lahiri’s failure in The Lowland is not one of style, but of sensibility. She has little investment in the spirit of the Naxalite movement she chooses to depict.
Bad Science
Free-market academic research policies have unleashed medical quackery and scientific fraud, forcing consumers to pay premiums for discoveries we’ve already funded as taxpayers.
Unmaking Global Capitalism
Nine things to know about organizing in the belly of the beast.
No Shortcuts
The need to develop a strategy that can cohere the different parts of our movement has never been clearer.
Free the Land: An Interview with Chokwe Lumumba
Chokwe Lumumba discusses popular power and the past and future of revolutionary struggle in the American South.
Waiting for SCOTUS
By fixating on the Supreme Court, liberals have inherited the framers’ skepticism of popular sovereignty and mass politics.
Occupy After Occupy
Its critics may disagree, but Occupy Wall Street’s legacy has been an enduring one.
Capital Eats the World
Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows that not everything in mainstream economics is worthless.
A General Without an Army
For all Piketty’s mainstream respectability, it is only the radical left and the labor movement — not treasuries and central banks — that can push his program.
The European Conundrum
With last week’s elections, commentators are heralding the “end of Europe,” but the evidence tells a different story.
Piketty’s Fair-Weather Friends
Piketty’s warnings of a capitalism without meritocracy are being challenged by an ossified economic theory.