Environmental Havoc Is Making Colombia’s Mosquitoes Deadlier
Colombia hosts many of the world’s most dangerous species of mosquitoes. Climate change is making them more prevalent.
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I Spent Five Days in Israel’s Desert Prison
I joined a flotilla to deliver aid to Gaza. After Israeli forces seized our ship, I spent five days inside al-Naqab prison, witnessing the cruelty of Israel’s detention regime.
Breaking the Economics Discipline’s Austerity Consensus
Economics departments across the United States slavishly adhere to the mainstream consensus on austerity and the free market. The Center for Heterodox Economics thinks there’s a better way.
Marxism, the Land, and the Global Working Class
Solving our global ecological crises today requires understanding how capitalism has transformed humanity’s relationship to the land. Karl Marx’s thought gives us the tools to do just that.
Britain’s Government Has Given the Green Light to Israeli War Crimes
British prime minister Rishi Sunak arrived in Israel today to give his support to Benjamin Netanyahu’s war on the civilian population of Gaza. But huge numbers of people in Britain are defying legal threats to express solidarity with the Palestinian people.
The UAW Is Right to Withhold Its Endorsement of Joe Biden
The United Auto Workers is refusing to endorse Joe Biden until he commits to backing an electric vehicle transition that creates good union jobs. The union’s new reform leadership is absolutely right to hold Biden’s feet to the fire.
The Slaughter of Hiroshima
On this day in 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Here's one survivor's story.
Liberals Should Stop Wringing Their Hands Over Voting Labour
There are only two real choices in the UK election — Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour and Boris Johnson’s Tories. Comfortable liberals who claim to be “politically homeless” are exposing their cluelessness about the misery and havoc another Tory government will impose on ordinary Britons.
No, Finland Is Not a “Capitalist Paradise”
In Finland, the government owns nearly one-third of the nation's wealth, and 90 percent of workers are covered by a union contract. That may not be socialism, but it's also not a “capitalist paradise,” as the New York Times ridiculously claimed over the weekend.
Labour’s Inclusive Ownership Funds Will Be Fine
British companies grant shares to their executives all the time. But now that Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour is planning to require them to grant shares to ordinary workers, the Financial Times is warning of disaster.
In Search of Lost Time
After five months of negotiations, Syriza’s choices remain the same: capitulate to Greece's lenders or break with the euro.
With Brexit, It’s the Geography, Stupid
Pundits analyzing Britain’s Leave vote obsess over everything but what mattered: decades of economic decay in declining regions.
The Devil’s Music
Years and years before gangster rap, satanic lyrics, glam rock, and Led Zeppelin’s groupie antics, good old-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll — the chosen music of the postwar youth — roused nothing less than a full-blown moral panic across America. Here are the songs most responsible.
DSA Has a Chance to Take Another Leap Forward in New York Politics
This spring, New York’s Democratic Socialists of America is eyeing a promising state senate race between Kristen Gonzalez and Elizabeth Crowley that could put the group in position to form a significant bloc of legislators in the state’s upper house.
I Was Arrested at an Antiwar Demonstration in Saint Petersburg
Thousands of Russians have been arrested for opposing Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine. A socialist detained by police during a protest in Saint Petersburg writes about her arrest and the antiwar movement’s defiance in the face of state repression.
Joe Biden Should Commute Whistleblower Daniel Hale’s Sentence
Daniel Hale was sent to a facility known as “Little Guantanamo” for exposing just how deadly the US drone assassination program is. Hale's actions served the public. President Biden should set him free.
Guyana’s Blessing and Curse
The tiny nation has discovered the world’s largest per capita oil reserves. What does the bonanza mean for its future?
Bernie Sanders Is Absolutely Right to Oppose Trump’s New Trade Deals
Democrats have signed off on Donald Trump's latest trade agreements, including NAFTA 2.0. But the rotten deals are nothing to celebrate — they still operate under the absurd assumption that if US companies are profitable, benefits will trickle down to workers.
Hypocrisy Wins the Day
Yesterday's vote to impeach Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff wasn't about corruption — it was about the Right's bid for power.
Privatization Failed — Even the Tories Are Admitting It
Boris Johnson’s Conservative government has announced it will be renationalizing British train lines. It’s further proof that privatization is being discredited around the world.