Dead Letter Blues
USPS cuts signal yet another advance of the profit-driven corporate model.
Search Result(s) for: “Japan”
After Austerity
For the Left, it will no longer do simply to be anti-austerity.
Imported From Detroit
Behind American auto’s latest PR campaign lies a bleak economic reality.
On the Anniversaries of My Lai and Iraq
45 years after My Lai, you might want to read this, from the Washington Post.
The Last Lost Cause
Was the mid-century dominance of southern Democrats essential to the defeat of Hitler and the triumph of American democracy?
Prostitution Law and the Death of Whores
Why focus on laws and regulations aimed at controlling sex workers rather than recognizing their agency?
Socialize Big Pharma
Maintaining a private pharmaceutical sector represents a significant public health risk. One solution is complete nationalization.
Money in the Bank
The story of pro wrestling in the twentieth century is the story of American capitalism.
Vonnegut and Labor
Can literature be a force in the fight for economic justice?
Global Capitalism in One Country?
There is more to global capitalism than American empire.
Dollar Diplomacy
Money crosses the divide between states and markets. Capitalism.
Keeping Postage Public
The United States Postal Service's manufactured fiscal crisis need not lead to the end of the public postal system.
Art in the Age of Fatalism
If art is to engage the world as an active force, it needs to be both grounded in the world of everyday life and go beyond it.
Burn Before Reading
There are few things more disordered in the world than a Thomas Friedman column.
Workers Against Israel
Nothing is more crucial to the success of BDS than the movement’s relationship with organized labor.
Breaking Up Fortunes
The rich have too much. Hiking the estate tax would be a powerful tool in a broader anti-inequality campaign.
“I Don’t Want to See My People Die”
Independence leader Benny Wenda discusses the struggle against “secret genocide” in West Papua.
Ban Private Equity
The relationship between private equity firms and workers is zero sum: when they thrive, working-class communities suffer.
Imagining the Socialist City
We will not go into the socialist city blindly, but with lessons from a century of experiments.
Capitalism’s Victims
Increasingly dehumanizing work has caused an epidemic of suicides in France.