George Bailey’s Shrinkage
It’s a Wonderful Life of lowered expectations.
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Peter Singer’s Race Problem
We can't equate the horrendous treatment of animals with the oppression of people.
Josh Frydenberg’s Budget Takes From the Poor to Give to the Rich
Instead of providing sorely needed stimulus, the 2020 budget from Australia's Coalition government transfers wealth toward millionaires and big business and away from the poor, the unemployed, women, and the government’s ideological enemies.
Liberals Still Think Fact-Checking Will Stop the Right. They’re Wrong.
For today’s liberals, the default approach to combating the Right is to fact-check the Right. But conservatives aren’t contestants in a debating contest: they’re waging a political struggle and playing to win. Fact-checking won’t save us.
Paul Le Blanc on the Meaning of Lenin
For poet Langston Hughes, Lenin was a symbol who “walked around the world” even long after his death. Paul Le Blanc talks to Jacobin about how to understand his complex legacy.
The Regulatory Loophole That Keeps Poisoning Atlantans
This week, a Georgia chemical plant suffered yet another accident, releasing toxic fumes into an Atlanta suburb for at least the fourth time. The plant falls into a yawning regulatory loophole that chemical industry lobbying has kept open for years.
Keep It Public
Public lands place the common good over the profitable. We should fight any attempt to privatize them.
Fascism’s Pincer
We can avoid a barbarous future. But we'll have to massively redistribute wealth first.
The Military Budget Is a Disgrace
The United States is spending $750 billion on its war machine. That money should be going to food, education, health care, and shelter for working people.
How Bernie Should Talk About Borders
Bernie Sanders’s recent comments on open borders played into a right-wing trap. But his strong record on immigration suggests he can advance a program for immigrant rights that sees immigrants as key players in winning a society for the many, not the few.
What Is Democracy?
Filmmaker Astra Taylor on her latest documentary, the relationship between democracy and freedom, and why the latest round of books on the erosion of norms are "just not very good."
Maple Leaf DOGE vs. the Canadian State
Instead of building a resilient economy to meet the challenges of the present economic “rupture,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals are turbocharging austerity and gutting the capacity of Canada's federal public service.
America’s Origin Story Is a Myth
The foundational myths of the United States celebrate the conquest of the frontier as the creation of a nation founded on principles of equality. Nick Estes thinks it’s time Americans grappled with the truth.
Democratic Socialism Is About Freedom
Critics insist that socialists want to squelch freedom. But the exact opposite is the case: democratic socialism is about expanding freedom — and liberating us from the tyranny that pervades everyday life under capitalism.
How Liberals Created, Then Destroyed, Publicly Owned Nuclear Power
The battle over New York’s Indian Point power plant was quietly a battle for the soul of American liberalism.
Right-Wing Social Democrats for Coal
The Australian Labor Party’s right wing has a new faction, the “Otis Group,” that uses the language of jobs and economic prosperity to pit working-class interests against the fight to stop global warming. It’s a cynical strategy that won’t pay off — and will continue cooking the planet in the meantime.
What Canada’s Social Democrats Can Do Now
Despite a disappointing result in Monday’s elections, the NDP has embraced its most socialist program in a generation. To recover and to win, it must continue to offer Canadians an alternative to neoliberalism.
Bernie Sanders Needs a Plan for the Amazon
The Amazon rainforest is close to an irreversible tipping point. By centering it in his foreign policy, Bernie Sanders can further distinguish himself while pushing his rivals.
Conservatives Against Incarceration?
Fiscal conservatives were never going to bring down the carceral state. A broader fight against social inequality is needed.
The Left Has to Speak to Average Americans’ Values
Joan C. Williams argues that progressives and leftists aren’t doomed to keep losing working-class voters — if they can stop dismissing the cultural principles that grant average Americans’ lives dignity.