Model Consumers

Obamacare tried to fix the health system one consumer choice at a time. No wonder it failed.

Do We Need Pfizer?

A plan to take on Big Pharma — and create and distribute lifesaving drugs.

How Single Payer Could Fail

We can’t stop halfway on the road to single payer.

The Private Option

A growing industry has a simple message to the victims of the US medical system — heal thyself.

Summoning the Future

The story of the British National Health Service, one of the twentieth century’s great working-class achievements.

Our Annual Physical

Everything’s fine but our wallet.

The Unions and the Movement

Through organizing around Medicare for All, unions can not only save millions of Americans, they can save themselves.

What’s Left in Puerto Rico?

Progressive forces in Puerto Rico must link social justice to national determination if they want to lead the island out of precarity.

We Represent the Future

The Socialist Case for Gun Control

We have a moral obligation to challenge a gun lobby callously destroying the lives of ordinary people.

The Gross Coalition

As Italians get ready to go to the polls this weekend, the center-left is preparing to do a deal with Silvio Berlusconi.

Labor and the Long Seventies

In the tumultuous 1970s, women and people of color streamed into unions, strikes swept the country — and employers launched a fierce counter-attack.

You Were Born in the Wrong Country

The US does a terrible job of keeping its children out of poverty — especially compared to other industrialized nations.

What’s Happening in Catalonia?

With leading separatist figures in prison or exile, and December’s elections producing a stalemate, what next for Catalonia’s independence movement?

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

Class struggle and running for office often pull in opposite directions. But we can’t build a socialist politics without navigating those waters.

What Strategy for the US Left?

The capitalist state’s dependence on profitability and its institutional structure make the strategy of successive, partial breaks through “non-reformist reforms” unrealistic.

When Ford Built a Torture Chamber

In the 1970s, Ford was doing more than making cars — they were helping torture and kill leftists.

From Zuma to Ramaphosa

Jacob Zuma won’t be remembered as a liberation hero, but as a corrupt leader who broke the South African left.

When Government Fails

It’s popular to argue that average Americans are abandoning democratic principles. But what if they’re simply fed up with political elites?

21st Century Americanism

Populist symbolism can be powerful — but we can’t drop the old language of class.