Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
Commentators like the New York Times’ Bret Stephens have called slain CEO Brian Thompson a “working-class hero.” You don’t have to condone murder to see through that ridiculous claim about a man who was at the helm of a legalized extortion racket.
As major fast-food corporations like McDonald’s and Taco Bell transformed into almost fully franchised operations, the chains created a system that shields them from accountability on labor issues while maintaining strict control over working conditions.
US and European governments are refusing to lift sanctions on Syria, punishing its people for a situation that is out of their control even though the intended target of the sanctions, Bashar al-Assad, is out of the picture.
Construction workers pooled their wages to erect the first Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in 1931, bringing holiday cheer to themselves on the job site. Their billionaire bosses co-opted the gesture, transforming it into today’s consumer spectacle.
Despite antitrust regulators’ efforts to rein it in, UnitedHealth Group has been growing to control ever more of the health care sector. The corporation’s expanding power has meant worse care, higher prices, and a mounting human toll.
The ICC’s arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of genocide has attracted global attention. But in Israel, he faces a trial for corruption to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars that could mean the end of his political career.
Yesterday Donald Trump confirmed that he’s considering privatizing the US Postal Service. That would be a big step in the direction of a libertarian dystopia.
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) used to have a mass base among West Bengal’s landless Muslim peasants. Today, their poor relations symbolize the party’s decline.
We asked scholar Eric Blanc to recommend reading on the party’s contentious relationship to the trade union movement.
Since leaving the White House, Barack Obama has been hard at work in Hollywood with his production company, Higher Ground, which signed a “high eight-figure deal” with Netflix.
Will the West’s record tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles support clean jobs or undermine the global green transition?
The center managed to keep the far right at bay in most of eastern Germany’s recent state elections, but the victory may be short-lived.
Haiti’s capital is in the throes of intense gang warfare.
The South Korean dramas that have hooked viewers around the world combine stark depictions of brutal inequality with opulent commodity fetishism.
Forty years ago, San Francisco dockworkers struck a blow against apartheid by refusing to unload cargo from South Africa.
Speculators and supply shocks have sent cocoa prices through the roof — but West African farmers aren’t getting to taste the profits.
Economist Isabella Weber explains where the inflation surge came from and why the Biden administration struggled to beat it.