Opal Lee is a writer.
Saturday’s Georgian election is widely cast as a decision on the country’s geopolitical alignment. For labor activists, the task is to put social issues on the agenda, faced with both government autocracy and an opposition that ignores workers’ interests.
Gambling companies are convincing states to legalize sports betting with promises of tax-revenue windfalls. The benefits are often less than promised — and they come at a severe human cost.
In Counterrevolution, Melinda Cooper reads the 1970s economic crisis as an elite revolt rather than proof of the New Deal order’s unsustainability. Her arguments rely on a rejection of Marxism as an analytical framework and of socialism as a political horizon.
A unique new study by the Center for Working-Class Politics, Jacobin, and YouGov highlights how economic populist messaging resonates with working-class voters in Pennsylvania on the eve of the November elections.
Donald Trump wants the ideology of William McKinley and Gilded Age Republicanism, but with a totally different social base. It won’t work.
Most Algerians boycotted last month’s presidential election, correctly perceiving it as a stage-managed farce. Five years after a protest movement forced Abdelaziz Bouteflika to step down, the old guard has stifled the popular demand for democracy.
It’s not just Hurricane Helene: Donald Trump has a record of politicizing disaster relief in a way that distorts the truth and flirts with right-wing conspiracy theories. If he wins again, Trump’s ongoing demonization of FEMA will have serious consequences.
If Donald Trump wins the election and keeps his promise to appoint Elon Musk to a prominent government position, Musk could reap one of the largest personalized tax breaks in US history — on top of the massive tax cuts Trump wants to give billionaires.
As the Kamala Harris campaign lurches rightward, pundits want us to believe she’s just following the will of the voters. The facts don’t bear that out.
This summer’s Paris Olympics saw an experiment in AI-assisted algorithmic video surveillance. Now French officials say they want to make it permanent, in what experts call a worrying use of invasive and even racially discriminatory technology.
With New York City’s corrupt and conservative mayor under federal indictment, New York State Assembly member Zohran Mamdani argues that it’s time for the Left to think big.
Brazil’s battle with Elon Musk is just the tip of the iceberg in the struggle between Big Tech and sovereign nations for control of our digital future.
Ukrainian elites have for decades been divided between Westernized professionals and pro-Russian oligarchs, each with a narrow social base. The missing force has been the working class, unable to develop its own distinct project for the country’s future.
Lobbyists are urging the Supreme Court to use upcoming cases to gut consumer protections. The lobbying groups involved are tied to conservative donors who have spent decades working to roll back consumer regulations and environmental protections.
It’s shocking for many of us to learn that forced labor is actually legal as punishment for a crime. Ballot measures in Nevada and California this Election Day would outlaw forced labor in prisons.
As trade tensions rise and industrial policies are reshaped, labor faces critical decisions in a world plagued by economic nationalism and climate change.
Carpet-bombing entire residential blocks, wiping out entire neighborhoods, slaughtering at least 100. It’s another weekend of Israel’s impunity in killing Gazans, this time in Beit Lahiya in the north.
Donald Trump’s separation of children from their families at the border was a centerpiece of his migration policy. Errol Morris’s new documentary, Separated, chronicles the cruel policy during Trump’s first term that would likely return in a second.
Employers take advantage of the fact that few know about DALE, a federal program that protects undocumented workers from retaliation. Helping these workers access their rights is a key step toward organizing some of the US’s most predatory workplaces.
For over a year, the US and UK media have refused to identify Israel’s war as a genocide. Mainstream outlets are only willing to regurgitate their governments’ soft criticisms of Israel, which serve to mask the West’s complicity in the slaughter.