Kingfish Down
Huey Long was assassinated 80 years ago. Whatever its appeal, his populism offered no real alternative for ordinary workers.
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India’s New Consensus
Recent regional elections in India handed Modi’s BJP important new majorities. How can it be stopped?
The New Deal in the American Political Imagination
The New Deal solidified capitalist democracy in the United States. The country has swung between hints of social democracy and free market absolutism ever since.
Spain’s Hospitals Have Suffered Death by a Thousand Cuts
Spain’s requisitioning of private hospitals is a fine example of government mobilization to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak. Yet the country’s overwhelmed wards also show how neoliberal policies have chipped away at public health care — starving hospitals of resources while siphoning them off to paid-for alternatives.
Who Wants to Save Capitalism?
Free-market thinkers are increasingly embracing radical-sounding ideas to shore up capitalism.
Ending Poverty in the United States Would Actually Be Pretty Easy
In the wealthiest country in the world, there’s no reason anyone should be poor. Period.
Rashida Tlaib’s Plan to Combat Poverty
Last week, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib proposed three pieces of legislation under the umbrella of her “Economic Dignity for All Agenda.” These bills would create a comprehensive system of economic security reaching nearly every American.
New York’s Last Socialist Congressperson
Before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, there was Vito Marcantonio: East Harlem's socialist congressperson, who fought for justice for Puerto Rico, sweeping civil rights, and a more radical New Deal.
Jobs For All
In an age of precarity, a left-wing demand for full employment could be massively popular. But liberalism can't deliver it.
Money in the Bank
The story of pro wrestling in the twentieth century is the story of American capitalism.
German Social Democrats Cast Low-Wage Migrants as Fraudsters
Germany’s Social Democrats often sound the alarm about the rising far right. It would help if their own elected officials didn’t constantly spread misinformation about migrants stealing from the welfare system.
W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction Is Essential Reading
W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America is one of the greatest modern studies of revolution and counterrevolution. It’s also an extraordinary example of a materialist and class analysis of race under capitalism.
How Poland’s Failed Transition Fed the Nationalist Right
Throughout Poland’s transition to capitalism, no party challenged a neoliberal consensus that produced soaring unemployment and mass emigration. But as the promises of 1989 crumble, it’s the nationalist right that’s channeling discontent.
The Indigenous Revolution
Standing Rock points the way forward for indigenous people and the Left.
Finland, We Hardly Knew Ye
The Finnish welfare state is being eroded, and the far right has gained momentum. As the country turns one hundred, what's happened to Finland?
Iceland’s Revolution
After its financial crisis, Iceland put bankers in jail. But it didn't rein in capital.
Colombians Don’t Just Want a New Government — They Want an End to Neoliberalism
For weeks, Colombians have remained in the streets challenging their nation’s violent social and economic model.
The Unholy Family
“Family values” and neoliberal capitalism are supposed to be enemies. A new book begs to differ.