In the recent GameStop saga, Chamath Palihapitiya portrayed himself as a defender of the little guy and floated running for office. But beyond the shrewd PR, he’s just another corporate-friendly Third Way centrist with an intense devotion to free-market triumphalism.
In the last week and a half, Texas Republicans moved to block $8 billion worth of pandemic unemployment benefits for 1.3 million people — just days after voting to extend a corporate subsidy program that is enriching fossil fuel companies and has already cost the state $10 billion.
New reports reveal Amazon doesn’t need the public subsidies it has demanded for new facilities. Maybe cities and states should stop forking that money over.
After an IRS leak about billionaires’ massive tax avoidance schemes, corporate media says there’s nothing to see here because the avoidance is surely legal. But there’s no reason we should assume that these billionaires are playing by the rules.
Peter Thiel’s right-wing provocations lead many to conclude that he’s an outlier in supposedly liberal Silicon Valley. In fact, as an open advocate for a world where technology supplants democracy, he’s the industry’s fullest embodiment.
The superrich often claim their philanthropy is meant to “change the world.” But it’s really meant to keep it exactly the way it is.
Workers in Canada’s trucking industry have suffered during the pandemic. The “Freedom Convoy,” a right-wing, pro-business social movement, purports itself to be the people’s champion of liberty — yet it couldn't care less about the hardships and burdens of its fellow workers.
Libertarian think tanks are already gearing up to make the dystopian case for extending private property rights to the moon. It’s a blueprint for expanding the power of the world’s plutocrats on a scale never seen before.
Although it’s been sitting on your shelf for years, your paperback copy of Capital has a tellingly uncreased spine. It’s time to change that — here's a guide to how.
Platform Socialism is a vital contribution to a left vision for tech, but it fails to fully account for the ways Big Tech is wedded to finance capital. Socializing giant platforms may only be possible in the context of broader political transformations.
In Canada, the results of pandemic income support seem to confirm the claims of universal basic income advocates. But to make UBI work, we need to ensure it's coupled with a massive expansion of welfare state policies.
They’re grotesque symbols of plutocratic wealth and massive drivers of the climate crisis. We should ban private jets.
The cost-of-living crisis is only getting worse in Britain, and Amazon isn’t offering its workers nearly enough to fix it. That’s why British Amazon workers have recently carried out a series of wildcat strikes.
Tandem Diabetes Care’s stock has fallen as diabetic Americans are dangerously foregoing expensive medical supplies. Its CEO says this drop-off isn’t happening in countries with universal health care. He’s inadvertently making the case for Medicare for All.
In previous industrial revolutions, machines took over manual labor jobs, then repetitive assembly line work and analog office drudgery. Now they’re coming for “cognitive” work.
Texas gas billionaire Kelcy Warren is taking Beto O'Rourke to court over an old campaign talking point. It could keep future candidates from bringing up the influence of corporate money in politics.
Social theorists identify automation as both the main cause of unemployment and the future launchpad for a high-tech post-scarcity world. But, Aaron Benanav argues, the problem is the stagnation of global capitalism and its inability to generate enough jobs.
The labor movement needs more innovative, dynamic, worker-driven organizing campaigns with big national targets like Starbucks and Amazon — and like the newly announced union drive at Tesla.
Online misogynist Andrew Tate doesn’t pretend that life under capitalism isn’t a scam. He readily acknowledges that it is, with success coming through coercion, exploitation, and predation — and he wants you to get in on the hustle with him.
Wage growth has been experiencing a historic slowdown. If that trend holds up, inflation is on track to get within half a percentage point of the Fed’s 2% target level by this time next year. But will inflation hawks be willing to take yes for an answer?