The Democratic Party is hopelessly corporate, but election law is stacked against third parties. The Left needs an independent organization that can stay flexible about running as Democrats but behaves with the discipline of a real party.
Is Trump’s foreign policy the work of an incompetent ignoramus or a strategic genius? The answer may surprise you.
Along the new migration route through southeastern Europe, migrants are beaten, stranded, and neglected, while the EU looks the other way.
At the core of democratic socialism is a simple idea: democracy is good, and it should be expanded.
Corbyn’s Labour Party is advancing a transformative project that could push beyond traditional social democracy — and toward democratic workers’ control.
The capitalist drive for profit is posing a looming threat to a landmark environmental law.
Of course former FBI director James Comey dislikes socialists — we’re against the kind of reprehensible business practices that made him rich.
Liberals are using Russiagate to gin up nationalist fervor and anti-Russian paranoia. It’ll only backfire.
Too much global warming is already locked in. We need a radically utopian way of removing carbon from the atmosphere.
Making political hay from attacking Donald Trump as Vladimir Putin’s puppet is both wrong and dangerous.
For Richard Pipes, the anticommunist ideologue and historian, Soviet tyranny was rooted not in communism, but in the Russian soul.
One of Emmanuel Macron’s leading aides has been caught impersonating riot police to assault protesters. It’s a scandal that symbolizes a presidency.
New research reveals inequality levels not seen in a century — and it shows where these new super-elites live, too.
One day in 1944, Madeleine Riffaud saw a German officer walking through Nazi-occupied Paris and shot him dead in broad daylight. At 93, she is one of the last survivors of the French Resistance.
The message of Israel’s new “nation state” law is as simple as it as repugnant: Palestinians need not exist.
Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You captures the crude madness that we live in every day under capitalism.
Want to find out if “progressives” are winning their fight against “establishment” Democrats? Good luck figuring out who’s who — you’ll have to take the candidates at their word.
We joined the New Communist Movement because we were serious about changing the world. It taught us much about how to organize — and how sectarianism ruins everything.
Steve Bannon thinks the Mediterranean can be a laboratory for anti-migrant politics worldwide. Unfortunately, he’s right.
Everybody’s talking about democratic socialism these days. Here’s what you need to know about it.