While Mike Gravel never earned the respect of the political establishment, he passed from this Earth with his conscience untormented by the ghosts of screaming civilians whose lives those in Washington regularly snuff out with their afternoon coffee.
Our challenge is to see in technology both today's instruments of employer control and the preconditions for a post-scarcity society.
British Labour politician Anthony Crosland’s The Future of Socialism was once the bible of revisionist social democracy. Looked at today, it is far from prescient but surprisingly compelling.
We live in an interwoven, interconnected world where an injury to one is truly an injury to all. We must confront the coronavirus with solidarity and fight for a society where the health of all is more important than profits for a few.
Andrew Yang is a capitalist. But unlike many liberals, he tried to come up with concrete, material solutions to inequality.
Thousands of Americans cohabitate but don't marry because doing so would result in the loss of Medicaid eligibility. Marriage penalties (and bonuses) are just part of why we need a universal social-democratic welfare state.
Children deserve to spend their days in the company of peers, having fun, and discovering the world with the help of loving, well-compensated adults.
Capital's share is more than enough money to finance a universal basic income.
Some leftists imagine a postcapitalist society will free everyone from the need to work. But the only realistic and fair way to manage production under socialism is to democratically distribute and share in the burdens of labor.
John Delaney is completely insignificant. But he’s echoing common talking points about the Green New Deal. They’re all lies.
A social wealth fund could massively reduce wealth inequality — and democratize the economy at the same time.
In a speech last week at the UN, Marc Lamont Hill issued a passionate call for action to achieve justice in Palestine. We reprint his address here in full.
Universal benefits aren't merely the morally just way to carry out welfare policies. They are also the smart way to carry out welfare policies.
Rent control can build tenant power and undermine the logic of speculative neighborhood investments. New York needs it right now.
As progressives debate whether or not to celebrate the Inflation Reduction Act, let’s take a moment to remember Build Back Better: universal pre-K, paid family and medical leave, free community college. It’s all been taken away — and you should be furious.
America’s schools are more segregated than ever. We can integrate them — but only by forcing the state to expand universal public institutions and redistribute wealth.
Trump’s assault on Medicaid highlights the cancer at the heart of the US welfare state: means-testing.
Don’t believe the critics. Medicare for All is the most realistic way to win universal, equitable health care.
Class, race, and gender intersect on multiple levels — we know that. The challenge is to translate this into an emancipatory project.
