For too long, military force and myopic power plays have dominated US foreign policy toward Africa. We need an entirely different approach — one that allows ordinary Africans the space to build a more just and democratic continent.
If you want to beat Donald Trump, there is one safe bet — and it’s not Joe Biden, it’s Bernie Sanders.
The murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia provided a harrowing demonstration of Malta’s toxic nexus of political and corporate power. But the fight against corruption can’t rely on moral outrage alone — it has to free the mass of people from an economic model based on endemic patronage.
The much mythologized Republican resistance to Donald Trump is, and has always been, a media creation. Its only purpose is to perpetuate Beltway fairy tales of American exceptionalism and high-minded bipartisanship.
Mik Pappas is a Pittsburgh district judge. He’s also a socialist. In an interview, he explains what it means to be approach the criminal justice system from the left.
A Trump reelection is the worst-case scenario, and the Left needs to be part of the struggle to prevent it. Impeachment is part of that struggle.
The violent state of US policing cannot be understood apart from the country’s Cold War crusade. During those decades, cops at home and military personnel abroad exchanged techniques and tactics to mete out repression and thwart leftist insurgencies.
With the UK's National Health Service now in the hands of a Tory government, the US health-care industry will look to exploit every opportunity to squeeze profits out of the system. But this is nothing new: the US has always had its sights set on the NHS.
Do you want to see Donald Trump defeated in 2020? Of course you do. The candidate who is best positioned to do exactly that: Bernie Sanders.
The Democratic presidential debate tonight will be moderated by PBS's Yamiche Alcindor, a journalist whose record of anti-Sanders bias is incredibly long.
As Jeff Bezos considers buying an NFL team, fans should examine his history of workers’ rights abuses. Bezos’s record makes it clear: he is unfit to own an NFL team.
To build the power to take on climate change, we can’t simply validate individual movements or assume single-issue struggles will add up to something greater than the sum of their parts. We need class politics to connect the dots of our many struggles — and to save the planet.