“It’s Important to Talk About the Role That Capital Plays in the Justice System”
Mik Pappas is a Pittsburgh district judge. He’s also a socialist. In an interview, he explains what it means to be approach the criminal justice system from the left.
19301 Articles by: Ryan Switzer
Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
Why Impeachment Matters
A Trump reelection is the worst-case scenario, and the Left needs to be part of the struggle to prevent it. Impeachment is part of that struggle.
“The Police Know Guerrilla Warfare”
The violent state of US policing cannot be understood apart from the country’s Cold War crusade. During those decades, cops at home and military personnel abroad exchanged techniques and tactics to mete out repression and thwart leftist insurgencies.
US Interests Have Had Their Sights Set on the NHS from the Beginning
With the UK’s National Health Service now in the hands of a Tory government, the US health-care industry will look to exploit every opportunity to squeeze profits out of the system. But this is nothing new: the US has always had its sights set on the NHS.
Bernie Is the Candidate Who Can Beat Trump. Here’s Why.
Do you want to see Donald Trump defeated in 2020? Of course you do. The candidate who is best positioned to do exactly that: Bernie Sanders.
Tonight’s Democratic Debate Co-Moderator Has a Longstanding Anti-Bernie Bias
The Democratic presidential debate tonight will be moderated by PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor, a journalist whose record of anti-Sanders bias is incredibly long.
NFL Players Might Not Survive Playing for Jeff Bezos
As Jeff Bezos considers buying an NFL team, fans should examine his history of workers’ rights abuses. Bezos’s record makes it clear: he is unfit to own an NFL team.
Climate Change Is Class Struggle
To build the power to take on climate change, we can’t simply validate individual movements or assume single-issue struggles will add up to something greater than the sum of their parts. We need class politics to connect the dots of our many struggles — and to save the planet.
Getting Away with Murder in Northern Ireland
Pandering to ultranationalism, Boris Johnson is seeking to make it harder for the families of those murdered by British soldiers in Northern Ireland to pursue justice in the courts. It’s the latest escalation of the Tories’ hard-right turn on the question of how Britain should confront the legacy of the Troubles.
The Obsessive Remainers Have Scored a Massive Own Goal
For the last three years, second-referendum campaigners heaped blame on Jeremy Corbyn for his alleged role in “facilitating” Brexit. Yet their determined efforts to torpedo his leadership destroyed any chance of a compromise solution — and made the hardest of hard Brexits inevitable.
Krystal Ball Is the Anti–Rachel Maddow Bernie Fans Have Been Waiting For
Krystal Ball was once an MSNBC star. Now she’s one of the few mainstream media figures who gets why Bernie Sanders matters and why liberal professionals shouldn’t be allowed to dominate progressive politics.
Free Higher Education Is a Very Good Idea
Liberal pundits and politicians like Hillary Clinton have a host of objections to free higher education. But free college isn’t just good policy — it’s good politics.
The “Bernie Bro” Slur 2.0
In today’s political discourse, you can say whatever you want about Bernie Sanders and his supporters without any baseline expectation of fairness. You can completely invent sensational allegations of sexist hypocrisy among Sanders supporters — and even high-profile journalists will casually repeat them, with no concern for reality.
Bolsonaro’s New Chapter of Neoliberalism in Brazil
Brazil’s 1988 post-dictatorship constitution enshrined a broad range of social rights and a modest welfare state. Since taking office a year ago, Jair Bolsonaro and his band of paranoid reactionaries have dedicated themselves to attacking and undermining those rights.
Corbyn Lost. But Bernie Can Win.
The Bernie movement can win precisely because we’re learning from the mistakes of Corbynism, not to mention our own.
Mike Bloomberg Is as Big a Threat to Democracy as Donald Trump
Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign isn’t just an obnoxious distraction — it’s a case study for the danger that billionaires pose to democracy.
Why Labour Lost — And Why We Must Press On
Leading up to last week’s election, Jeremy Corbyn came to be seen as “just another politician,” not an outsider. Despite its ambitious program, our campaign lost its insurgent feel and got drowned out in the Brexit culture war. But we can’t retreat from our goal of creating a Britain for the many, not the few.
“They Should Put Us Kids First”
The Rochester, New York, school board is set to lay off 200 educators midway through the school year. We interviewed three students organizing mass walkouts to stop the cuts.
Why Naomi Klein Has Been Right
By following the development of global capitalism and international left movements for the past three decades, Naomi Klein has analyzed the world much more clearly than mainstream political observers — and stayed ahead of the curve in proposing bold solutions to fix our most burning problems like climate change.
Don’t Let Liberals Write Off Workers in “Flyover Country”
The New York Times is trying to convince us that “Middle America” can never be won over to Bernie Sanders’s left-wing platform. Don’t listen to the nonsense — workers everywhere can and should be organized.