Michael Is Not Rooted in Reality
The average successful Hollywood biopic is cynically dishonest and rote in its formulaic box-checking. Michael, the new film on the life of Michael Jackson, is all that and worse.
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The Tough Task of Forging a Labor-Climate Alliance
Winning a just transition will require environmental activists to forge ties with labor unions around shared interests. That’s no easy task — but across the US, we’re seeing promising beginnings of a labor-climate alliance.
The Power of Power Structure Research
Emerging in the 1960s, power structure research — mapping who holds power in society, how those entities are connected, and how they use their resources to shape major decisions — has been an important weapon in civil rights, antiwar, and labor struggles.
Politics Is Everywhere, So Why Do People Feel So Powerless?
The defining feature of the last decade was that everything, from food to music, was politicized. All the while, our capacity to act collectively only grew weaker. Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics sets out to explain why.
Who Will Be the Village Voice of the 21st Century?
The Village Voice was the “loud, open mouth” of New York. Could its equivalent exist today?
Sri Lanka Is Experiencing a Political Earthquake
This month, Sri Lanka elected an avowedly left-wing president for the first time. The new administration will be caught between the expectations of its supporters for change and pressure from the IMF to continue with a destructive austerity program.
Your Individual Boycotts Aren’t Helping
Boycotts against corporations can be powerful tools. But they have to be waged as part of larger collective struggles with real plans to win — not simply as acts for frustrated individuals to take on their own.
Zohran Mamdani Is Trying a Fresh Tactic With Trump
Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani met for a second time on Thursday. The meeting was conciliatory, with Mamdani having apparently hypnotized Trump with charisma and overt flattery. It’s both a savvy and potentially perilous strategy.
Diego Rivera Was the Painter of the Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution inspired an extraordinary cultural efflorescence, with painting as its leading art form. The spectacular murals of Diego Rivera, inspired by Mexico’s popular history and culture, are the most remarkable legacy of that period.
Irfan Habib Is One of the Great Marxist Historians
By creatively applying Marxist ideas to the history of India, Irfan Habib has made an invaluable contribution to our understanding of its past. Legal harassment from Narendra Modi’s supporters hasn’t stopped Habib from taking brave political stands.
Bruno Kreisky, a Social Democrat From a Different World
With his pro-worker reforms and pacifist foreign policy, Bruno Kreisky was Austria’s greatest chancellor. His successes weren’t just a product of his own talent but of the powerful labor movement that shaped him.
Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo Feels Very Familiar
Intermezzo, the latest novel by Sally Rooney, trots out some well-worn gender tropes from on and off the page.
Cut the Military Budget in Half
It’s not enough just to oppose this war on Iran. We should demand major cuts to the US military budget, starting with cutting it in half.
Germany’s Gen Z Is Revolting Against Militarism
Across Germany, tens of thousands of high school students went on strike on Thursday to protest the likely reintroduction of military service. Germany’s political leaders want a new generation of soldiers, but young people are against it.
Average People Won Universal Childcare for New York
Just one year ago, the idea that New Yorkers could get universal childcare was dismissed as utopian nonsense. An organized democratic socialist movement made it a reality, with the first phase launching this year.
Democrats Are Facing a Moment of Reckoning
The Democratic Party has split: one faction masks corporate capitulation as necessary moderation, and the other refuses to tell voters to ignore their experience, admitting that Democrats have long bailed out the ultrarich at workers’ expense.
The Left in Power
Evo Morales’s presidency made real gains for working people. But could it have charted a more radical course?
How Big Law Became Big
As US capitalism boomed, attorneys from a handful of New York law firms became powerful viziers of America’s elite.
The Left’s Proud Legacy of Defending Free Speech
Throughout US history, left-wingers have often suffered harsh repression of their civil liberties, which is why they were at the forefront of fights to defend free speech. It’s a proud tradition that the Palestine movement must carry on today.
We Can’t Rely on Green Capital for Decarbonization
Under Joe Biden, green capitalists primarily sold commodities to help wealthier homeowners decarbonize. Real climate action will require a much more robust public-oriented politics of public investment, public goods, and public ownership.