A Field Guide to the New Red-Baiting
Faced with a historic public-sector strike wave, anti-labor forces are sharpening their rhetorical weapons.
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Nathan Fielder and Bennie Safdie’s The Curse Adds a Dash of Horror to Cringe Comedy
The new series The Curse, starring Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone as rich, clueless gentrifiers, follows a married couple filming an HGTV reality show. It’s a low-key cringe comedy that makes everyday selfishness and awkwardness feel like a horror movie.
India Is in a Horrendous COVID Crisis. It’s Modi’s Fault.
The horrific COVID crisis in India isn’t just the result of rich countries’ criminal hoarding of vaccines and intellectual property — it’s the fault of Narendra Modi’s far-right government, which has prioritized private profits over public health.
Stephanie Kelton Thinks the Conventional Wisdom Is Changing
In an interview with Jacobin, economist Stephanie Kelton argues that we're seeing a paradigm shift away from free-market dogmas and austerity.
The Consequences of Forgetting
We live in a country built off slavery and anti-black racism. The struggle for reparations is about remembering that, and fighting for a better future for all working people.
We Need to Win Our People Back
French workers’ top electoral choice isn’t Marine Le Pen, but abstention. To mobilize their support, the Left needs to look beyond the workplace alone — and answer a deeper mood of alienation.
Those Who Study and Those Who Know
Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series refuses to simplify the systems of capitalist and patriarchal domination it describes.
How Frantz Fanon Was Transformed by the Algerian Revolution
There was nothing abstract about Frantz Fanon’s political vision for the Global South: it was forged in the Algerian liberation struggle. Fanon’s role in that struggle convinced him that national independence would be hollow without social revolution.
Tenants Won This Round
Last week, New York tenants overcame the state's powerful real-estate lobby to win a historic package of renter protections. Next stop: universal rent control.
John Wick 3 Delivers the Justice We All Crave
Life in America sucks. Average people are constantly wronged and have little recourse to justice. That's why it's so satisfying to watch Keanu Reeves kick everyone's ass over and over in the John Wick movies.
The Vice of Selfishness
The Left shouldn't sharply separate "moral" discourse from "self-interested" discourse, because the two are closely intertwined.
Doing More with Less
Fewer workers are in unions, but density in itself doesn't always translate into power.
Despite Everything, Queer Leftists Survived
The history of queer liberation movements is often talked about as distinct from the history of the Left. But in the first half of the twentieth century, queer people were abundant among American radical leftists — decades before the rise of an organized mass movement for gay rights.
The Winner in France’s Regional Elections Was Abstention
We often hear about discontented French voters turning to Marine Le Pen’s far right, but not about the tens of millions who’ve given up on voting at all. They were the key in yesterday's regional elections — and they're the ones the Left has to win.
Keir Starmer Is Dragging Down the Labour Party
Labour held on in Batley and Spen in spite of Keir Starmer's unpopular leadership, not because of it. An effective local campaign kept him as far away as possible. In thrall to focus groups and media groupthink, Starmer is still guiding Labour onto the rocks.
The Batley and Spen By-Election Showed Britain’s Political Class Holds Muslims In Contempt
Keir Starmer’s Labour Party narrowly avoided a second successive by-election defeat to the Tories yesterday. But the most important story of the campaign was the alienation of British Muslims from a political mainstream that openly despises them.
Eco-Socialism or Bust
To confront climate change, we need to democratize, decarbonize, and decommodify our energy resources.
We Can’t Leave Outer Space to the Capitalists
Space policy is already a site of class struggle, and the mining and militarization haven’t even begun. It’s left-wing space policy or barbarism.