Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
In the 1970s, a crop of books purporting to provide a scientific basis for gender inequality met sharp criticism from figures like Stephen Jay Gould. Decades later, these debates have fallen out of public memory, but right-wing pseudoscience persists.
The longshore strike that paralyzed East and Gulf Coast ports for three days last year produced big wage gains and expanded protections in an industry where jobs are constantly under threat of automation.
A fall in NBA viewership has led pundits to ask whether the problem is that the league is too woke or shoots too many three-pointers. There is little evidence that these factors are to blame, but that hasn’t stopped conservatives from stoking a culture war.
After the Axis powers’ defeat in World War II, many former Nazis and Vichyites recycled themselves as anti-communists. Jean-Marie Le Pen sought to rally such forces with radicalized conservatives in a common front against the red peril.
This summer, World of Warcraft and Bethesda Game Studios workers joined the growing number of video game developers organizing with Communications Workers of America. We spoke with some of the workers and organizers who have been unionizing the industry.
After decades of defending Israel at its most indefensible, Alan Dershowitz couldn’t sit quietly by during a genocidal assault on Gaza. He was never exactly an intellectual titan, but his latest book is thin even for him.
Siri eavesdropped on users’ medical appointments and other private moments. With the pitiful settlement that was reached, Apple will now dole out enough hush money for each claimant to buy a few coffees.
From budgetary neglect to climate inaction to private monopolies, political choices have fanned the flames of California’s devastating fires.
Whatever restraints once existed on Israel’s behavior are long gone. Benjamin Netanyahu is now setting his sights on Iran — the question is to what extent President Donald Trump will back him.
US military veterans are significantly more likely than other Americans to be jailed at least once in their lives. Thanks to mass incarceration, the number of vets in prison doubled between the end of the Vietnam War and 9/11.
Israel has no scruples about wantonly slaughtering health care providers like Gazan hospital director Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh. What kind of country declares war on health professionals?
Thanks to Donald Trump’s support and Joe Biden’s failure to intervene, private equity is inching ever closer to tapping into the trillions of dollars sitting in Americans’ retirement savings plans.
The US electricity system has long been dominated by corporate interests. A truly democratic energy system will require public control and large-scale state planning, with especially significant input from the workers who know how to make that system run.
Fossil fuel companies are profiting off a state tax break depriving California of up to $146 million of annual tax revenue that could be used to combat climate-change-fueled wildfires — like the inferno currently tearing through Los Angeles.
It’s five years since Jeremy Corbyn resigned as leader of Britain’s Labour Party. In an interview, his former adviser Andrew Murray explains what went wrong for the left-wing leader.
Unlike in previous eras, elite reproduction today is now hidden under the veil of meritocracy — creating a need among the rich to present themselves as if they were just like us.
British historian G. E. M. de Ste Croix applied Marxist class theory to the history of the ancient world.
A new report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development affirms the obvious: ripping away pandemic-era welfare amid inflation and a housing affordability crisis was a complete disaster. The result: homelessness in the US is at a record high.
In the nail-biting new season of Netflix’s hit series Squid Game, players’ desperate circumstances push them to make fatally risky bets on individual success even when collective action might save them.
A break-in at the country home of Jean-Luc Mélenchon saw his house graffitied with far-right slogans and a swastika. The troubling attack followed past assassination plots against the French left-wing leader — but international media totally ignored it.