The Global South Must Be at the Center of the Making of a Just Global Economic Order

The US-dominated economic order constructed after Bretton Woods did not take the Global South into consideration. A new, just system will have to change that.

Private Equity Values Are Down — and Workers Might Pay With Their Savings

As public officials across America prepare to funnel even more of government workers’ savings to private equity moguls, they risk gambling away public retirement money as private equity values drop and industry executives continue to rake it in.

Poker Face Is the Working-Class Columbo We’ve Been Waiting For

Rian Johnson and Natasha Lyonne’s new detective show, Poker Face, is a brilliant working-class riff on Knives Out.

Cities Are Spending More to Brutalize Homeless People Than It Would Cost to House Them

Few scenes are as emblematic of the barbarism of American capitalism as the now-routine “sweeps” in which police round up homeless people and destroy their belongings. By some estimates, it would be cheaper to just provide them with housing.

The Rod Dreher Reality Show Is Hard to Look Away From

Following every juicy, unhinged twist and turn of Rod Dreher’s writing is trash TV for leftist intellectuals.

Ilhan Omar Should Wear Her Expulsion From the House Foreign Affairs Committee as a Badge of Honor

Ilhan Omar has been kicked off the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The move is a backhanded acknowledgment by her enemies of her unusual effectiveness as a critic of the hypocrisies of US foreign policy.

J. D. Vance Is Wrong. Donald Trump Was No Antiwar President.

J. D. Vance, the faux-populist senator from Ohio, says that Donald Trump “kept the peace” as president. He has a short memory.

After Independence, Algeria Launched an Experiment in Self-Managing Socialism

After the end of French colonial rule, Algeria’s first government began to promote workers’ self-management in the “Mecca of Revolution.” But a backlash by conservative elements led to a military coup that established the regime still in power today.

Israel Is Threatening to Turn Iran Into Another Ukraine

Israel’s air strikes on Iran highlight the risk that Israeli bellicosity and Biden administration fecklessness could combine to produce a disastrous regional war in the Middle East.

Own Your Bad

CUNY Is the People’s University. Austerity Is Killing It.

The City University of New York is the crown jewel of the city’s once-robust welfare state, a vital resource for working-class New Yorkers. Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul are starving it.

Big Pharma Is Obscenely Jacking Up the Prices of Publicly Funded COVID Vaccines

With pharma giant Moderna planning to quintuple the price it charges for its COVID vaccines — developed using taxpayer dollars — the case for nationalizing an out-of-control drug industry has never been stronger.

There’s No Such Thing as a “Self-Made Man”

The bootstraps narrative is near and dear to Americans’ hearts. But it’s a fiction, one that obscures complex relationships of interdependence and generates a culture of self-blame. It’s time to bust the myth for good.

France Won’t Accept Emmanuel Macron’s Attack on Pensions

Emmanuel Macron plans to raise France’s retirement age — but this Tuesday, well over a million people mobilized against him. One of the biggest social movements in years, it has a chance to deal a decisive blow to attacks on welfare.

Never Forget the Victims of Grenfell

On June 14, 2017, 72 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire in London. Peter Apps’s Show Me the Bodies is the best account of the tragedy and an unsparing indictment of the disregard for working-class lives that made it possible.

You Can Thank George W. Bush’s War on Terror for Donald Trump

The Bush administration’s war on terror meted out unthinkable violence in the Middle East while imposing an atmosphere of repression and nativism at home. It was the perfectly malignant petri dish for helping produce Donald Trump.

A New Worker Upsurge in Pro Golf, Brought to You by Saudi Arabia

With its upstart golf league, LIV Golf, Saudi Arabia has picked a fight with the American golf establishment. And because that establishment has stiffed so many pro golfers for so long, the Saudis appear to be winning.

Tyre Nichols’s Death Is What Happens When You Get “Tough on Crime”

As soon as it became electorally inconvenient, the Democrats largely dropped their support for police reform and adopted a crime-fighting approach straight out of the ’90s. The result: shocking police murders like Tyre Nichols’s have become more common.

A Gruesome Bill Asks Prisoners to Give Up Organs to Get Out a Few Months Early

Prisoners in Massachusetts may soon be forced to choose between their organs and their freedom: Democratic legislators in the state are proposing a law that would allow prisoners to donate organs or bone marrow in exchange for up to a year off their sentence.

Canada’s Health Care Crisis Is in Large Part a Labor Crisis

In several Canadian provinces, burned-out health care workers are leaving in droves, a result of wage suppression and attacks on workers. The fight for labor rights is key to fixing Canada’s health care crisis.