How Nativism Went Mainstream
California is often held as a deeply progressive state. But three decades ago, it was the launchpad for a virulent strain of anti-immigrant politics that soon spread nationwide.
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T Rivers is a pseudonymous journalist who covers East and Central Africa.
Working for Facebook Can Give You PTSD
Beheadings, infant rape, animal torture: content moderators are filtering these disturbing images and videos from your feeds every day. Moderating such brutal content takes a severe psychological toll on workers, but tech companies are doing little to improve their working conditions.
This Month’s Elections in Ireland Are a Historic Opportunity
After decades of right-wing dominance, the Irish general election this month could be a watershed moment in the country’s politics — if the Irish left can unite against Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil.
Drug Testing Is Just Another Way to Punish Welfare Recipients
Australian conservatives have been dismantling the country’s welfare system for decades. Plans to introduce drug testing for those on unemployment benefits are just the latest punitive measure against the poor.
Why Bernie Sanders Is the Strongest Candidate for Transgender People
He has a long history of supporting trans rights, his platform addresses the specific problems trans people face, and he takes pains to include transgender people in the sweeping universal programs that are his hallmark. There’s no question: on trans issues, Bernie Sanders is the best candidate in the presidential race.
No, Britain Shouldn’t Rejoin the European Union
Boris Johnson’s promise to “get Brexit done” allowed him to frame his whole agenda as a matter of implementing the popular will. Die-hard calls to rejoin the European Union are hopelessly out of touch — and risk dividing Labour over a futile culture war.
The Country Where Having a Miscarriage Can Land You in Prison
El Salvador shows what happens when countries criminalize abortion: women end up behind bars, and sexual violence is institutionalized.
In and Against the Brazilian State
A study of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement is rich with lessons for socialists who want to use the state without being captured by it.
Socialists Should Talk About Aspiration
Rebecca Long-Bailey’s “aspirational socialism” is an attempt to overcome a pervasive problem: after a decade of austerity, many working people don’t believe that politics can make their lives better.
Trump’s “Deal of the Century” Is a Brazen Land Grab
Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, and many leading Democrats are touting the administration’s Middle East peace plan. But the scheme is nothing but a brazen land grab that would deepen Israeli control while depriving millions of Palestinians of basic civil rights.
Bernie Has Opened an Opportunity for Us to Build an Anti-War Movement. We Should Seize It.
We need an anti-war movement more than ever. Through his insistence on the need to build grassroots power from the bottom up and his consistent anti-war record, Bernie Sanders can help give us the tools to build one.
Micah White Is the Ultimate Occupy Grifter
Micah White, the guy who says he “cocreated” Occupy Wall Street, just went to Davos to “achieve great changes” with the 1 percent. Sometimes social movement activism becomes just another scam.
Labor and Love Under Capital
The real path to liberation isn’t the call to “abolish the family.” It’s through radically transforming traditional family life with reforms that challenge capitalism’s corrosive logic.
The “Stop Sanders” Movement Is Worried That Bernie Can Actually Win, Not That He’ll Lose
“Electability” is the public rallying cry of the Stop Bernie campaign. But look a little closer, and the real issue becomes clear: the establishment fears having a democratic socialist in the White House.
Privatization Failed — Even the Tories Are Admitting It
Boris Johnson’s Conservative government has announced it will be renationalizing British train lines. It’s further proof that privatization is being discredited around the world.
The Pressure Cooker in El Salvador
El Salvador president Nayib Bukele has been in office eight months, and his post-ideological pretenses on the campaign trail have quickly veered to the right. In an interview, Salvadoran economist Julia Evelin Martínez assesses Bukele’s first eight months in office, the sad state of the Salvadoran left, and why she’s fervently hoping for a Bernie Sanders presidency.
Yes, Colonialism Was a Monstrosity
The German far-right party AfD recently invited a US academic to parliament to defend the country’s colonial past. But all the whitewashing in the world can’t hide the fact that colonialism was a horrendous, often genocidal affair.
What’s Old for US Labor Is New Again
We’re in the midst of a twenty-first-century Gilded Age. To end it, we can turn to some of the radical policies designed to democratize the world of work, empower a multiracial working class, and reel in the worst excesses of robber barons nearly a century ago.
Jonathan Chait Is Wrong About Everything, Including Bernie’s Electability
Jonathan Chait says “running Bernie Sanders against Trump would be an act of insanity.” But sticking with the Democratic establishment’s orientation to affluent moderates will spell disaster in 2020, just like it did in 2016 when 4.4 million Obama voters stayed home.
Democracy Is in Crisis. Karl Marx Can Help.
Karl Marx is often thought of as a purely economic thinker. But the famed socialist was a committed democrat — and his writings offer potential remedies for democratizing our undemocratic political system.