Opal Lee is a writer.
Chapo Trap House’s Matt Christman on pulling angry young men away from the alt right, consumption choices as politics, the grotesqueries of American life, and his commitment to “optimism of the will and all that shit.”
Fifty years ago today, the outrageous Miss America protests in Atlantic City brought second-wave feminism into Americans’ living rooms. Here are five reasons why the protests changed the world.
How did the Nordic countries become more equal? Simple: they attacked the wealth of the super rich.
Last week a racist mob terrorized Chemnitz in eastern Germany. This violent street militancy displays the increasing confidence of an emboldened far right.
Sunday’s election in Sweden shows how the decline of robust social-democratic guarantees can feed the rise of the far right.
Elizabeth Warren’s so-called Accountable Capitalism Act is a ruse. But it creates an unexpected opening for the Left.
By fighting him tooth and nail for seven years, Chicagoans have established that Rahm Emanuel is garbage. No matter what he does next, that stench isn’t coming off.
Much of the US prison system’s distinguishing features — massive racial disparities, the exploitation of prisoners’ labor by private firms, overcrowding, brutality, and much more — are the same in Canada.
Financialization isn’t a perversion of an otherwise well-functioning system. It’s just capitalism’s latest survival mechanism.
Andrew Cuomo is battling a major corporation in a bid to get reelected. In the process, he’s accidentally showing the Left how to use the state to battle capital.
In 1858, four million enslaved black people wielding political power in the American South would have seemed impossible. Ten years later, it became a reality.
Uber has been given free rein to violate basic employment laws with impunity. We have to stop them.
The Trump administration’s response to Hurricane Maria was bungling, insulting, and ultimately murderous. For any other politician, it would have been a career-ending debacle.
This Labor Day, with public opinion firmly in favor of unions and teachers racking up victories across the country, the news for the labor movement is actually hopeful.
A bill to legalize abortion narrowly failed in the Argentinian Senate. But feminist movements have already effected a social revolution in South America.
American prisons are barbaric. The national prisoners’ strike is a righteous response to those horrendous conditions.
We should be honest about the Communist Party of the Philippines’ record, including its assassinations of left-wing activists.
Some New York union leaders have joined Governor Cuomo against public-sector workers’ right to strike. They’re picking political favors over bottom-up organizing.
Last year, French president Emmanuel Macron gave liberalism a hip young face. Now the golden boy’s shine has started to come off.
A new report shows how the United States is lining corporate executives’ pockets with tax dollars.