Justin Trudeau Is Not Your Friend
Everybody loves Justin Trudeau. But his policies are bad for workers, the environment, and struggling people everywhere.
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Trump’s Middle-Class Army
Trump's narrative of American decline has captured a bitter and embattled middle class.
Kate Millett (1934–2017)
Second-wave feminist Kate Millett wrote with a sweeping ambition that matched the political ferment of the times. We need the same today.
Meghan McCain, Faildaughter
Meghan McCain’s new book, Bad Republican, is a testament to how little you have to know about politics to have a career as a pundit if your last name is “McCain.”
A Son of His Class
Executed by the Nazis on this day in 1944, the life of German Communist Ernst Thälmann was as contradictory and tragic as the movement he led.
A Brief History of Scientology
The strange story of Scientology — Hollywood's favorite cult.
Will Sinn Féin’s Wins Lead to a United Ireland?
Sinn Féin’s victory in Ireland’s recent Assembly elections is the first time a nationalist party has been the largest in Northern Ireland. The win makes a unity referendum more likely than ever.
Across Latin America, the Feminist Movement Is in the Streets
On March 8, 2020, thousands across Latin America participated in an international strike to protest gender-based inequality. The movement has attempted to redefine the politics of strikes by acknowledging the value of reproductive labor.
Croatia’s Bad Choices
Croatians suffering from austerity and sick of corruption need a political alternative.
For Enrico Berlinguer, Communism Meant the Fullest Spread of Democracy
Born 100 years ago today, Italian communist Enrico Berlinguer grew up under Fascist dictatorship. In postwar decades, he became leader of Europe’s biggest Communist Party — and an iconoclastic champion of a democratic path to socialism.
What Is the Left?
Solidarity is about what you do, not who you are.
Burying Fujimorismo
The successful movement against Keiko Fujimori's candidacy could be the basis for a growing left in Peru.
Democratic Leaders Don’t Fear Their Own Base. They Should.
Democrats have reneged on their longtime promise to codify Roe v. Wade every time they’ve held power. Party leaders will not fulfill that promise until and unless they fear their own voters.
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.
“The Society We Are Fighting for Has to Be Free From All Oppression”
Kshama Sawant on how the fight against race- and gender-based oppression fits into the fight for socialism.
The Alternative to Lulism
Brazil needs a left opposition capable of resisting both Dilma Rousseff's impeachment and deepening austerity.
Meet Argentina’s Free-Market Authoritarian President-Elect, Javier Milei
Argentina is reeling after self-styled anarcho-capitalist Javier Milei won its November 19 presidential election. Milei combines the worst elements of the global far right with the darkest episodes of Argentine national history.
The Democrats Are Enabling the Right’s Supreme Court Takeover
Chief Justice John Roberts is spearheading the Right’s judicial coup — and Democrats’ worship of norms and institutions is allowing it to continue.