Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
In the early days of the Gilded Age’s rush for profit, freed people’s savings were siphoned off by politically connected financiers. Justene Hill Edwards’s Savings and Trust uncovers how finance cloaked dispossession in the language of uplift.
New legislation in Florida introduces a financial model that would enable local governments around the country to invest virtually limitless sums in the Israeli war effort, despite the mounting financial risk of doing so.
New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has clearly learned from other effective communicators like Bernie Sanders how to use online media to spread popular left-wing ideas. Mamdani’s approach is a model for other insurgent candidates.
SEIU leader David Huerta’s arrest sparked the recent anti-ICE protest wave. Unions like his could tip the scales to win its demand: End the raids now.
The Trump administration wants to cut more than 80,000 VA jobs this year and further privatize veterans’ health care. Last week’s D-Day anniversary saw the biggest veteran mobilizations yet against Trump’s cuts to veterans’ benefits.
At the heart of Andrew Cuomo’s mayoral run is the firm belief that none of the terrible things he’s done to the people whose votes he’s competing for will matter. Here’s a reminder of a few of the biggest scandals on that long list.
Since 2016, Democrats have operationally withdrawn from rural America. No party can win nationally without rural voters, and progressive economics have plenty to offer, if only the party would embrace them.
The labor movement improves lives for all kinds of workers, and the two largest National Labor Relations Board elections of the month of May were at two very different workplaces: the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and Dold Foods in Wichita, Kansas.
Following the lead of Starbucks workers, employees at board game cafés across New York City unionized in 2023 as Tabletop Workers United. After impressive shows of customer support and a credible strike threat, TWU has just won its first tentative agreement.
Even as pain, fear, and tariffs dictate economic outlooks, the huge companies losing billions in market capitalization can expect to recover. The millions of lower-income Americans with investment accounts tied to these same firms may not be so lucky.
In an effort to appeal to the median voter, Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, has accepted the Right’s talking points on immigration and economics. This experiment has been a disaster for Labour’s popularity.
Bill Ackman, one of Trump’s wealthiest backers, has struggled to keep his story straight when it comes to supporting the president’s economic policy.
UnitedHealth Group’s investors have profited from its sky-high coverage denial rates. Now, as the company faces mounting public pressure to approve more patient care, they are suing to stop the insurer from changing its “corporate practices.”
The assault on and arrest of California labor leader David Huerta during the brutal immigration crackdown in Los Angeles this weekend is part of a broader attack on unionized workers by Donald Trump’s deportation machine. Unions are mobilizing in response.
A wave of bills in state legislatures across the US is seeking to classify climate-heating methane gas as a source of “green” or “clean” energy. Dark money groups connected to the gas industry are behind the effort.
Ballerina is the female John Wick spin-off you didn’t know you needed. Ignore the critics — it’s fantastic.
The US Senate is poised to pass a financial deregulation bill ensuring that when a bank goes out of business, the savings of cryptocurrency owners would be made whole before those of other bank customers.
The liberalization of Israeli capital markets in the 1980s created close ties between US finance and the Israeli state. These connections have given rise to a capital coalition in both countries with an interest in continuing the genocide.
The Trump administration claims to be fighting an existential battle against insurrectionary forces in Los Angeles. In truth, it created this cynical spectacle itself, deploying troops and inflaming tensions to distract from its policy failures.
With some prominent Democrats and liberal pundits arguing for the party to try to win Elon Musk back to its side, you have to ask: Is American politics simply a matter of who can best kiss the ass of narcissistic reactionary billionaires?