Rob McIntyre is a United Workers Union delegate at the Toll Kmart warehouse in Truganina.
In 2002, the Pentagon staged a $250 million war game known as the “Millennium Challenge.” It was supposed to be a fixed fight — until a retired Marine lieutenant general, playing the role of a Middle Eastern country, brought the US military to its knees.
In the United States of 2020, millions are desperate for help, and they’re forced to compete for scraps from Twitter philanthropists.
The United States today isn’t on the verge of a Soviet-style disintegration — but neither is there any force at the top willing and able to reform our political system.
Effective states can enforce discipline on elites. The United States is not one of them.
In an increasingly unstable country, what if a “deep police state” threatens to undermine our electoral gains?
It is not enough to question the decisions, the justices, or even the structure of the current court — we need to challenge, as Abraham Lincoln did, the foundation of its power to determine the law.
The first generation of the GOP tried — and failed — to build a modern republic. Socialists today won’t get very far unless we finish their work.
And our decades to come.
We know the US rail network is no match for trains in France or Japan. But Barack Obama’s plan for high-speed rail couldn’t even match that of Morocco or Uzbekistan.
A new book shows how the fragmented American state arrests democracy. What we need is nothing short of a reconstruction.
A Very British Coup embraced the intrigues of class war, but its sequel falls prey to the mundanities of culture war.
How the neoliberal project’s very own fifty-state strategy left poverty and low wages in its wake.
Within ten days of giving birth, a quarter of us are forced to return to work. If liberals truly want to support parents’ choices, they need to back the subsidies and employment legislation that are vital to child-rearing.
Real left strategy isn’t found in socialist magazines. It’s found in the stars.
By virtually any measure, people in the United States are worse off than those in other rich countries. There’s no disputing the impact of our weak entitlements and paltry labor protections.
It used to be better to be a low-wage worker in the United States than in France. That hasn’t been the case for a long while.
A discussion on American partisanship, political dysfunction, and why it’s not our passions that are the problem — it’s the Constitution itself.
The federal government’s landmark lawsuit against Google has been hailed as a bold step to rein in Big Tech. But we’ll need much more than US antitrust law to match the economic power of a global juggernaut like Google.
A new book on American punk paints the movement as the last gasp of left-wing cultural resistance in the 1980s.
In 1920, a Soviet Socialist Republic was established in Iran’s Gilan province. A century later, the short-lived state stands as a powerful reminder of the long-running struggles in the Middle East to defeat both foreign imperialism and domestic oppressors.