Speculating a Better Future
For too long, speculative fiction has been hostile to emancipatory politics. That's finally starting to change.
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It’s Not Over
The Sanders campaign isn't the end of the line. We can use its momentum to unite movements and build broad support.
With Beto O’Rourke, There’s No There There
The stakes are too high in 2020 for another charismatic, ideologically empty politician, standing for everything and nothing in particular, like Beto O'Rourke.
When Frederick Douglass Met John Brown
What role did Frederick Douglass play in John Brown's Harpers Ferry raid?
Chicago’s Fountainhead
Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool has spent his career putting free-market ideology over the needs of the public.
The Paranoid Style in Brazilian Politics
The slow decline of the Brazilian Workers' Party has emboldened the country's growing right wing.
How New York Politics Has Changed
Andrew Cuomo took his victory lap in last week's New York election. But the incumbent class below him has been shattered, and his base is hungry for radical change.
Portland’s Andy Ngo Is the Most Dangerous Grifter in America
Far-right forces will converge on Portland tomorrow, incited by the right-wing provocateur Andy Ngo. Though he poses as a journalist, the purpose of his platform is to sow harassment and violence against his targets on the Left — and the mainstream media have fallen for it.
Victory Over the Sun
Postwar America’s greatest environmentalist was a labor leader.
David Foster Wallace Couldn’t Fully Escape Neoliberalism
David Foster Wallace was one of the great American writers of the neoliberal era. With a career spanning the years of Reagan’s reelection to the collapse of Lehman brothers, his novels, for all their complexity, reiterated the dominant ideology of the times.
The Olympics Is a Racket
The world’s top athletes coming together in a spirit of friendly competition is a beautiful vision. But the Olympics have become a machine for the ruthless extraction of profit at the expense of working-class people.
Argentina’s Crossroads Election Reminds Us to Never Underestimate the Far Right
Argentina goes to the polls today to decide between the centrist candidate Sergio Massa and far-right libertarian Javier Milei. The stakes could not be higher.
It’s Looking Like the Department of Justice Under Biden Will Have Major Influence from Corporate Law
Jamie Gorelick, a high-powered lawyer who defended the city of Chicago after the police murder of Laquan McDonald and sits on the board of Amazon, is a case study of the influence big corporate law firms wield behind the scenes in Washington — and she has friends like Merrick Garland in high places in the Biden administration.
Kissinger in Cyprus
Ask anyone over the age of 50 in Cyprus who is to blame for the island’s ongoing divisions, and the answer will be almost unanimous: Henry Kissinger.
Claire Valdez Is a Socialist and Union Organizer Running for Congress
Socialist state assembly member and former UAW organizer Claire Valdez is running for Congress in New York’s 7th district. We spoke to her about the race, the right and wrong ways to fight Donald Trump, and how the labor movement changed her life.
Nationalism’s Heretic
Polish writer Miron Białoszewski poked holes in nationalist myths with idiosyncratic prose.
Happy Birthday, Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger would have turned 100 today. Few figures in American history have lived as influential and deeply radical lives as he did. Let's celebrate him today.
Why They Invaded
Former British ambassador Craig Murray on the UK's decision to invade Iraq and the lessons still not learned.
Europe Can’t Decarbonize Without Democracy
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen claims to represent the “spirit of Greta,” yet corporate lobbyists have more influence over Europe’s Green Deal than ordinary citizens do. The green transition ought to be controlled by the social majority, so it serves all our needs — not just the businesses who hold sway in Brussels.
Fighting Puerto Rico’s Federal Coup
How the Puerto Rican left is trying to build resistance to both colonialism and neoliberalism.