Agnès Varda (1928–2019)
Agnès Varda’s films evinced a love of, rather than mere fascination with, people.
19676 Articles by: Opal Lee
Opal Lee is a writer.
As President, Bernie Should Cancel All Student Debt
The billions of dollars in student loan debt are an economic and moral crisis. Bernie Sanders should promise to wipe it all out.
I Can’t Believe Elizabeth Warren Is Losing to These Guys
Elizabeth Warren is no socialist — but unlike most of the candidates beating her in the polls, she’s a tough-minded liberal who makes the right kind of enemies.
Workers Should Be in Charge
Every day, private equity companies snatch up firms and strip them dry. But there’s an alternative: allow workers to buy their workplace and run it themselves.
Long Live the Women’s Committee
A dispatch from an embattled worker-run factory in Buenos Aires, where a militant women’s committee has linked the fight in the factory to the broader feminist struggle beyond its doors.
Bernie 1, Fox 0
Bernie Sanders didn’t just face down Fox News and prevail — he called the bluff that underpins our whole two-party system.
Democrats Are Failing Ilhan Omar
Trump is determined to vilify Ilhan Omar and Muslim Americans in general. Democrats have failed to unequivocally defend them.
How CAP Fuels the Right
The Center for American Progress is the country’s most prominent liberal think tank. But it isn’t just buddy-buddy with Democratic elites — it’s cozy with AIPAC and right-wing leaders like Benjamin Netanyahu.
How Bernie Should Talk About Borders
Bernie Sanders’s recent comments on open borders played into a right-wing trap. But his strong record on immigration suggests he can advance a program for immigrant rights that sees immigrants as key players in winning a society for the many, not the few.
Crawling out From Under a Rock
With the Tories in shambles in the run-up to next month’s EU elections, racists and misogynists are coming out of the woodwork of British politics.
The Innovation Cult
“Innovation” is one of capitalism’s most popular buzzwords. Its function is to sustain the myth that business genius creates society’s wealth.
Liberals and the Attack on Ilhan Omar
The Democrats’ treatment of Ilhan Omar isn’t just shameful. It feeds into the rhetoric of the global far right.
Don’t Blame the Babies
“Don’t start a family — it’s bad for the planet.” The latest bad take on climate change forgets one little thing: whether or not you have a kid, the fossil fuel industry will still be there.
The Consequences of Mr Macri
Mauricio Macri came into office promising to stem corruption and bring down inflation. But his austerity policies have left Argentina’s economy in shambles.
Theresa, EU’ve Done It Again
With Brexit bogged down and the Tories in meltdown, Labour looks set to tip the European Parliament elections to the center-left for the first time in a generation. Another own goal for Theresa May.
US Workers Are Paying High Taxes. But Without Any of the Benefits.
The United States is commonly thought of as a low-tax country. But workers effectively pay some of the highest taxes in the developed world — without getting a decent welfare state in return.
Beyond the Rank-and-File Strategy
The rank-and-file strategy isn’t enough. We should examine the broad range of working-class organizing strategies and experiences that are today’s socialists’ collective heritage.
Marx and the Prophet
On why the rise of fundamentalism in Muslim-majority countries owes much to the failings of the secular left.
The Diffidence of a Liberal
The arc of Paul Krugman’s thinking shows the paradox of liberal reformism constrained by a conservative understanding of the possible.
Democratize the Fed
Yes, it was absurd for Trump to suggest nominating Herman Cain to the Federal Reserve. But the Fed is already political — our goal should be to make it democratic.