Instability Comes Home
Here’s what’s behind the turbulence shaking US politics — and why it will likely only get worse.
19637 Articles by: William G. Martin
William G. Martin teaches at SUNY-Binghamton and is co-author of After Prisons? Freedom, Decarceration, and Justice Disinvestment (2016) and a founding member of Justice and Unity for the Southern Tier; he covers local justice matters at www.justtalk.blog
No Salt Added
Obama’s labor board failed to protect union salts. Now union busters can go back on the attack.
Expanding the Slaveocracy
Historians Eric Foner and Matt Karp on the international ambitions of the US slaveholding class — and the abolitionist movement that brought them down.
Ending the Empathy Gap
Our aim is a society where people are guaranteed the necessities of life not because they’re sympathetic, but because they’re human beings.
Trump’s Lethal Threat
Donald Trump’s administration has already proven deadly for trans youth. It’s up to the Left to fight the new attacks.
The Glory Days Are Over
Trump’s victory signals a deep crisis of neoliberalism.
How to Fight Trumpcare
The GOP’s attacks on our already crippled health-care system are an opportunity for the Left to offer an alternative to neoliberalism.
The Lies of Originalism
Neil Gorsuch’s originalist philosophy isn’t uniquely unbiased or respectful of democracy. It’s a handmaiden of American reaction.
Black Liberation and Left Renewal
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation compels us to respond to Trump by building multiracial solidarity and socialist alternatives.
Defeat in Victory
Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom did worse than expected on Wednesday. But there’s not much else to cheer in Dutch politics.
Rooting for the Monsters
The monsters of Kong: Skull Island are as brilliantly rendered as its politics are muddled and queasy.
Trump’s “Hard Power” Budget
Donald Trump’s budget would make America even more authoritarian and militaristic than it already is.
Ignoring Antisemitism’s Threat
Zionist leaders have been downplaying antisemitic attacks in the US in order to cozy up to Donald Trump.
Ireland’s Other Proclamation
This St. Patrick’s Day we remember the 1867 Fenian uprising — and its radical vision of an Irish Republic.
No Easy Answers, Just Bad History
A Vox writer sets out to prove social-democratic policies aided the far right. He fails.
The Far Right’s Leftist Mask
The European far right has cynically appropriated left-wing and pro-worker talking points for its own purposes.
Don’t Study Collective Action Alone
We’re offering bulk copies of The ABCs of Socialism to groups and individuals at below costs.
Between Students and Workers
At the height of the 1960s antiwar movement, student radicals held a heated debate about their role in labor struggles. That debate is still relevant today.
Politicking Without Politics
Democratic elites are delusional — you can’t subdue the reactionary right without a robust alternative political vision.
Two Crises
Capitalism routinely creates crises for the working class. To transform society, we need to create a crisis for capitalists.