Americans do not like billionaires throwing their endless money around to buy off whoever and whatever they want. The anti-oligarch messaging pushed by Bernie Sanders against the Trump administration has deep resonance, and we need more of it.
Berlin’s city government has moved to deport four pro-Palestine protesters. Even as centrist parties warn against the far-right threat, they introduce the powers beloved by authoritarian leaders.
Donald Trump told the world that his administration would end the censoriousness of “woke” liberal culture. His time in office has seen one of the worst crackdowns on free speech in recent American history.
After Indonesian dictator Suharto invaded Timor-Leste in 1975, Australian communists set up an illegal radio station, broadcasting reports from the resistance to the world. Their work exposed atrocities — and Australia’s role in hiding them.
Year after year, funds actively managed by professional analysts fail to outperform passive index funds. So how are professional stock pickers still a thing? And how long before their clock runs out?
Donald Trump has explicitly tied his campaign to slash federal jobs to draining “the swamp” of Washington, DC. But the impact of these cuts to the federal workforce will reach far beyond the DC area.
Donald Trump’s trade war means that we’re entering a qualitatively new phase in the history of capitalism. Yet the new economic order taking shape will be just as “globalist” as the neoliberal regime it’s supplanting.
Throughout Europe, states have spent decades running down the structures of public investment and planning that once made housing accessible for working-class people. A recharged model of public housing is essential to address the resulting crisis.
Yesterday Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on all of America’s trading partners, with the explicit aim of “liberating” the US from unfair trade. Not only are these efforts confused, they will lock America in a cycle of stagnation and inflation.
Elon Musk resorted to promising voters $1 million checks and other unheard-of acts of brazen election buying to swing a state supreme court race. It seems to have been a bridge too far for voters.
Nonprofit hospital chains are buying up billions of dollars’ worth of real estate across the US, dodging property taxes using their charity status.
The labor theory of value is one of Marxism’s most contested ideas. Both critics and supporters of socialism have labeled it inconsistent and outdated. In an interview with Jacobin, economist Duncan Foley offers a full-throated defense.