The Disinformation Scam
We shouldn’t embrace the war on disinformation just because the Right hates it.
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Injustice for All?
We can hate the Oregon gunmen's worldview without wishing state violence on them.
The Real Fake News Crisis in America Comes From Corporate Media
Outlets like CNN and MSNBC are platforming con artists, skewing the news, and immersing the country in a flood of lies.
Actually, the Democrats Don’t Care About Identity
The Democrats like to trumpet their commitment to group representation and multicultural sensitivity. But they’re happy to throw those principles overboard if it will help them attack the Left.
Canada’s Trucker Protests Are Proof That Pandemic Culture Wars Can’t Defeat Far-Right Populists
Noxious reactionaries are leading Canada’s trucker protests in response to COVID policies. Those reactionaries will continue to gain ground as long as government pandemic responses keep ignoring how average people’s most basic needs aren't being met.
True Democracy Is Incompatible With Capitalism
In the past two decades, a succession of crises has led to the rise of authoritarian states, acutely showing how capitalism and democracy were never compatible to begin with.
Identity Politics Is a Poor Substitute for Socialism
In No Politics but Class Politics, Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed show how an identity politics that obscures class politics and ignores economic inequality only makes the many miseries around us worse.
The Supreme Court After Scalia
The Supreme Court is a bulwark of reaction. We should be checking its power, not paying deference to it.
How to Stop Trump
The protesters shutting down Donald Trump's rallies aren't attacking democracy — they're protecting it.
Was John Stuart Mill a Socialist?
John Stuart Mill might have lots of libertarian fans, but his idiosyncratic ideas, despite their limitations, had more in common with democratic socialism than pro-capitalist ideologies.
Bernie Sanders, Socialist New Dealer
For decades, neoliberal Democrats have chipped away at the gains made through New Deal reforms. Bernie Sanders wants to deepen and defend those gains.
All That Remains of Neoliberal Identity Politics Is Fascism
Mainstream Democrats are moving away from identity politics — but the Right has doubled down.
Beto O’Rourke Should Not Run for President
We don’t need another photogenic media star with run-of-the-mill liberal politics running for president. Beto O'Rourke should stay in Texas.
A Hundred Netanyahus
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won’t be defeated in the polls on April 9. Whether he is indicted for corruption soon or not, his method of repressing Palestinian resistance is popular — and will probably outlast him in Israeli politics.
How the QAnon Cult Stormed the Capitol
Perhaps the strangest thing about the media coverage of the Capitol Hill rally was how little of it focused on the visible presence of QAnon. What’s behind the Q cult, and how can we confront it?
Nobody Cares About the Discourse
It’s we who represent the many. And the Democrat intelligentsia who represents the powerful few.
How Stephen Jay Gould Fought the Science Culture Wars
In the 1970s, a crop of books purporting to provide a scientific basis for gender inequality met sharp criticism from figures like Stephen Jay Gould. Decades later, these debates have fallen out of public memory, but right-wing pseudoscience persists.
Canada’s NDP Needs to Go Big or Go Home
With an aggressive wealth tax and Green New Deal in their platform, the New Democratic Party of Canada has the potential to change the national conversation. But if the NDP can’t outflank the Trudeau Liberals from the left, it might as well pick up and go home.
Canada’s Social Democrats Could Make Big Gains in a Snap Election
Justin Trudeau is widely expected to call a snap election. With the Tories and Greens in disarray, the NDP is well-positioned to make gains — if it runs an effective and unapologetically populist campaign.
Centrists Are Pining for a Golden Age that Never Was
As the political center has withered in recent years, self-described moderates have often expressed nostalgia for the "normal" politics of the 1990s. But the era of Blair and Clinton really wasn't a golden age of progress — and it brought a wave of market fundamentalism still sowing havoc today.