Donald Trump richly deserves to be condemned for his response to COVID-19. But the catastrophic failures of public policy didn’t start with Trump: this bipartisan disaster has been decades in the making.
In the midst of a right-wing onslaught, Indian workers carried out one of the largest strike in world history.
Workers need independent and strong unions, not corporate-sponsored NGOs, to fight their bosses and support their families.
Coca-Cola makes 100 billion plastic bottles a year, and recycling isn’t stopping the build-up of waste. We need government action to rein in the plastics industry.
Tory disputes over Brexit are nothing new. But today’s crisis in Theresa May’s party highlights deeper fractures in the Conservative base.
The G20’s plans to postpone 76 emerging countries’ debt repayments are a band-aid on fundamental injustices in the global economy. Rebuilding the Global South after the pandemic will require a complete upending of the international order — and the defending states' sovereignty rather than financial markets'.
Brazil’s election campaign has seen sharp clashes between the Workers’ Party and Jair Bolsanaro’s far-right movement. But political strife and soldiers in the streets also reflect a deeper economic malaise.
Germany’s Social Democrats now have a chance to make amends for the German empire’s genocidal policies in Africa. In doing so, they’d be returning to the party’s anti-imperialist roots.
The spectacle of international climate negotiations shows that climate justice won't come through existing institutions.
We don’t hear about them very often, but the estimated 800 US military bases around the globe have played an essential role in turning the whole world into a bloody battlefield. Any effort to roll back US empire has to include dismantling the machinery of US military bases.
We can’t heal the climate if the US war machine keeps raining destruction, absorbing resources, and gobbling up fossil fuels all around the world. Here’s how to stop it.
On this day in 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Here's one survivor's story.
How a corruption of New Left ideology became fodder for the religious right.
Sharing economy companies like Uber and Airbnb aren't helping local economies — they're just helping themselves.
Harley-Davidson is one of most iconic “American” companies in America. What does work on its shop floor look like?
Versions of today’s global pandemic nightmare have been imagined by Hollywood since the 1990s. But films like Contagion and Outbreak have all overlooked the way a health crisis is unevenly distributed across classes, both in the United States and around the world.
Brazil's right is determined to remove Dilma Rousseff from power and cripple any movements to her left.
Protests are growing in Ecuador, where radicals must contend with both the Right and Rafael Correa.
Trump finally declared mass opioid addiction a national emergency. But he won’t take on big pharma and the social roots of the crisis.