Italy’s Past Glories
As Italy’s election approaches this weekend, the decline of its communist tradition still haunts the country’s left.
19282 Articles by: Ryan Switzer
Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
Time After Capitalism
A hundred years ago, the United States adopted daylight savings time in order to extract more profit from labor. How would we organize time differently if we were free from the demands of capitalism?
When Workers Fight Back
Workers resist exploitation, even in the worst circumstances. Historian Annelise Orleck spoke with 140 of them, from garment workers in Cambodia to Walmart workers in the US.
Against Generational Politics
Generational politics is a socialism of fools.
Growing Up in the “Just City”
In the 1950s and ’60s, New York City’s cooperative housing embodied the egalitarian dream of modernist architecture.
Saving West Virginia
West Virginia’s teacher strike started over pay and benefits. But it could end up transforming the state’s politics.
Escaping the Dead Ends
A new party formed ahead of this weekend’s Italian election is looking to overcome a decade of failure by the country’s left.
Bernie Sanders Has a Message
And the message is good.
Obamacare and the End of Culture
Enjoy the soothing sounds of our national id.
Is It Okay to Watch Football?
That’s an individual choice. But imposing boycotts from the outside isn’t how politics works.
How to Kill a Bill
Inside the secret war of America’s most effective assassins: Harry and Louise.
Rich People Kill Themselves
Today, the rich have access to the finest medical treatments backed up by the most rigorous science. Some of them decide to take mushroom elixirs instead.
A Counterrevolution in Progress
Piece by piece, conservatives have dismantled US abortion rights.
Talkin’ For-Profit Medicine Blues
A century of hard living and hospital bills in American song.
George Bailey’s Shrinkage
It’s a Wonderful Life of lowered expectations.
Model Consumers
Obamacare tried to fix the health system one consumer choice at a time. No wonder it failed.
Do We Need Pfizer?
A plan to take on Big Pharma — and create and distribute lifesaving drugs.
How Single Payer Could Fail
We can’t stop halfway on the road to single payer.
The Private Option
A growing industry has a simple message to the victims of the US medical system — heal thyself.
Summoning the Future
The story of the British National Health Service, one of the twentieth century’s great working-class achievements.