How Kamala Harris Ditched Medicare for All
Kamala Harris once championed Medicare for All, calling the US’s current system “inhumane.” As the 2024 election approaches, questions about Harris’s stance on health care have a new urgency.
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Greek Unions Want Paid Time Off When It’s Too Hot to Work
Greece’s latest heat wave in July highlighted the danger of 100°F-plus temperatures for workers toiling in the sun. Trade unions are proposing a sensible solution: mandatory, paid stoppages on outdoor work when temperatures reach dangerous levels.
India’s M. N. Roy Was the Pioneer of Postcolonial Marxism
M. N. Roy was a revolutionary activist across national borders, from his home country of India to Mexico and the USSR. Roy rejected Eurocentric versions of Marxism, and his ideas about the postcolonial state are strikingly relevant to Indian politics today.
Turkey’s War in Iraq Is About Building Its Regional Power
Turkey’s war on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party has seen it build a permanent military presence in Iraq. But its de facto occupation is also about building the “Development Road” — a megaproject meant to strengthen Turkey’s power across the region.
The South’s EV Boom Is an Organizing Challenge for Labor
Thanks in part to investments from the Inflation Reduction Act and tariffs on China, the US South is seeing a boom in electric-vehicle manufacturing. The industry’s expansion in the mostly nonunion region presents an urgent organizing challenge for labor.
What Will the Constitutional Challenge to the NLRB Do?
The most likely outcome of the current constitutional challenge to the National Labor Relations Board is not that the Supreme Court will destroy the agency — it’s that the board will be unable to operate in many states while the litigation is proceeding.
The US Is Backing Israel’s Systematic Killing of Journalists
The United States government regularly decries authoritarian press crackdowns around the world. Yet that same government gives billions to Israel as it makes no attempt to hide its policy of killing journalists.
J. D. Vance Fought Health Regulations on the Steel Industry
Despite claiming to champion the interests of US workers, J. D. Vance pressured regulators to abandon proposed rules on steel production meant to protect the health of steelworkers and communities in steel-industry towns.
The Democrats’ “Weird” Glass House
Yes, Republicans are “weird,” but the in-vogue Democratic talking point gets us further away from an economic argument about why Donald Trump is bad for working-class families.
Israel Is Slaughtering Journalists With No Consequences
With Israel’s killing of young journalist Ismail al-Ghoul, the body count of journalists in Gaza continues to grow higher. What kind of country carries out such wanton slaughter of journalists? And why won’t anyone stop it?
On Family Policy, Neither Party Has a Vision of the Good Life
Democrats have far better childcare and education ideas than Republicans, but their tendency to frame such policies as mere “good business” misses what really matters about the policies: the freedom to make life meaningful for both parents and kids.
Sing Sing Is a Humanizing Portrait of the Dehumanized
Prisons serve as giant holding pens for people our society has come to see as subhuman. Sing Sing resists such dehumanization through a tender portrait of the creative capabilities and emotional lives of prison actors.