Socialize Football
A modest proposal to save the National Football League.
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From the People’s House to Zuccotti Park
The Wisconsin anti-austerity movement drew on popular occupations around the world, and set the stage for Occupy Wall Street.
The UBI Bait and Switch
Finland’s UBI experiment serves as a cautionary tale for basic income proponents on the Left.
Communists for Austerity
In criticizing capitalism for mass consumption instead of exploitation, The Americans uses Soviet characters to valorize austerity.
The Iraq War Is the Skeleton Key
George W. Bush’s war on Iraq is central to understanding our world today. Yet the war has largely been flushed down the memory hole. Remembering how we came to start the war and who sold us it is critical to stopping us from being dragged into similar bloody conflicts in the future.
The Climate Crisis and COVID-19 Are Inseparable
Commentators like to point to Wuhan’s “wet markets” as the source of the pandemic, but COVID-19 is the result of a much larger, global phenomenon of environmental degradation. Combatting both means putting the politics of food production and land use at the very heart of our socialist project.
The Next Portuguese Revolution
On the Carnation Revolution’s fortieth anniversary, Portugal’s elites want to use its legacy to justify austerity.
Emmanuel Macron Is Not Your Friend
Emmanuel Macron is a Silicon Valley-loving, union-hating, Third Way centrist. He’s no bulwark against the far right.
Struggling for the “Safe Zone”
Bill McKibben on capitalism and the state of the climate justice movement.
Britain’s Made-Up Migrant Crisis
Political fearmongering about the effects of immigration on the British economy doesn’t track with reality.
The Response to the GameStop Fiasco Shows It’s Still Wall Street’s Economy
Now that hedge funds are losing billions to Redditors buying stocks like GameStop, Wall Street wants heavy-handed intervention into the market, and brokerages have clamped down on the upstarts. It’s a reminder that there’s no such thing as “people’s capitalism” or “shareholder democracy” — the capitalist economy is structured to do what’s best for the business elite.
How Germans Grappled With the Nazi Past
German understanding of the Nazi era is often seen as a model of how a country comes to terms with its past. But the limits of this experience also have much to teach us about building a public memory culture based on a thoroughgoing universalism.
From the White House to the Boardroom
The Obama Foundation's new board of directors embodies the neoliberal approach that failed to defeat Trump.
Asset-Manager Firms Are Taking Over the Social Infrastructure on Which We All Depend
Asset-manager firms like Blackstone have become hugely important players in global capitalism since the 2008 crash. They’re steadily taking control of the social infrastructure that’s essential for human life and using it to generate massive profits.
True to Life: An Interview with Martin Hägglund
Martin Hägglund speaks about This Life, his new book about love, grief, wealth, and Karl Marx.
Weekly Sisyphus #2
Is Europe entering the “Age of Austerity”?
What Corbyn Already Won
Don’t let them make you forget it — once you move beyond Corbyn’s personal polling, the electorate consistently likes his policies.
The Meaning of the Paris Commune
What can the Paris Commune offer to present struggles for emancipation?
The Third Way International
Throughout the 1990s, Bill Clinton and other Democratic Leadership Council figures launched a campaign to take their Third Way ideology global.
Bernie’s New Internationalist Vision
Right-wing populism is advancing across the world. Bernie Sanders wants to fight back.