What Makes Scandinavia Different?
What accounts for the Nordic countries' strong welfare states? Hint: it's not white homogeneity.
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How Housing Speculation Created Environmental Crisis in Spain
The floods that hit Spain last year were more than just a natural disaster. They were exacerbated by housing developers who built homes in the most flood-prone areas.
Is Merkel Being Irrational?
German elites are willing to let the euro crash to guarantee their own political survival.
Organizing After the Odeh Verdict
Rasmea Odeh is a dedicated community leader and Palestinian-American activist. No wonder the US government went after her.
No Rent for Rats
From Tompkins Square to Zuccotti Park, New Yorkers have long resisted their city’s neoliberal housing initiatives.
Escaping the Dead Ends
A new party formed ahead of this weekend’s Italian election is looking to overcome a decade of failure by the country’s left.
Socialism Was Central to W. E. B. Du Bois’s Thought
The leading black intellectual and freedom fighter W. E. B. Du Bois was a longtime committed socialist and, eventually, a Marxist — commitments that were central to his life and work. Liberals are dead set on suppressing this aspect of his legacy.
Challenging Abe’s Japan
The growing youth movement against Prime Minister Shinzō Abe is disrupting Japan's conservative status quo.
No, We Should Not Condemn Uprisings Against Police Murders Like George Floyd’s
The uprising in response to George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer this week has led to predictable calls to condemn looting. But the real looting in our society comes from the military, the police, the pharmaceutical companies, private equity, the landlords, the real estate speculators, and the billionaires — not protesters against police brutality.
The Rich and Poor Don’t All Suffer Under the Pandemic Equally
Versions of today’s global pandemic nightmare have been imagined by Hollywood since the 1990s. But films like Contagion and Outbreak have all overlooked the way a health crisis is unevenly distributed across classes, both in the United States and around the world.
Crimes Against Design
Donald Trump isn't just ruining lives. He's ruining fashion.
AI-Driven Worker Displacement Is a Serious Threat
By many estimates, the increasing use of artificial intelligence is set to produce significant job losses. The prospect of serious disruption demands that we start formulating egalitarian policy solutions right now.
Donald Trump and the ’80s Aesthetic
The pro-Trump Zoomer sees the 2020s as a degenerate age and the ’80s as a time when men were men. It’s why their homemade videos are filled with VHS scan lines, old Gillette commercials, and Van Halen’s “Jump.”
Remaking Labour
MP Jon Trickett on studying under Ralph Miliband and how Labour can become a million-member party.
Greece’s Fascist Threat
The fascist Golden Dawn party has drawn Greece's ruling party further right — and opened space for deeper austerity measures.
Let the Primary Against Eric Adams Begin
New York City has seen increasing chaos and immiseration under Mayor Eric Adams. It’s time for the city’s leftists and progressives to unite behind a challenger who can win.
Luck Shouldn’t Determine Our Fates
Socialists accept that some degree of inequality may be inevitable in a complex society. But there’s one kind of inequality that’s intolerable: the kind where resources are allocated according to factors that individuals can’t control.
Pam & Tommy Is the Kind of Sharp, Funny, Class-Conscious Satire We Need
In Pam & Tommy, the story of the infamous Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape becomes an epic tale of thwarted American dreams.
Marxism Doesn’t Equal “Wokeness.” But If You Oppose Oppression, You Should Be a Marxist.
The Right uses “Marxism” to describe everything from LGBTQ rights to corporate diversity measures. It’s a deeply confused definition. But it’s not wrong about one thing: Marxists do indeed want to dismantle all forms of oppression.
Canada Is Banning “Wage Fixing” — Unless It’s Necessary to Boost Profits
A new bill in Canada takes aim at wage-fixing and no-poaching agreements among major corporations. But significant loopholes and objections from business groups underscore how even modest labor legislation faces staunch resistance from capital.