We already know that we desperately need single payer for health care. But the recent failures of California’s PG&E show how we need a single-payer system for our energy grid, too — to stop the reckless, dangerous behavior of private companies getting rich off what should be a public good, and to fight climate change.
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century has been covered ad nauseam. But how it will change the ideological landscape remains to be seen.
A no-fly zone in Syria isn't a humanitarian response — it's a call to war.
Turns out Clinton's ground game sucked.
Despite violence and intimidation, Colombia’s teachers have been a bulwark for workers’ rights.
New figures show that the US prison population has dropped. But mass incarceration remains firmly intact.
The Chicago Teachers Union used strike action to lift up working-class demands that go far beyond traditional collective bargaining. From teachers elsewhere to auto workers, other unions can, too.
The German far-right party AfD recently invited a US academic to parliament to defend the country’s colonial past. But all the whitewashing in the world can’t hide the fact that colonialism was a horrendous, often genocidal affair.
Desperate for unity, the Democrats have clipped the superdelegates’ wings. It's another win for the Bernie wing of the party.
Australian conservatives have been dismantling the country’s welfare system for decades. Plans to introduce drug testing for those on unemployment benefits are just the latest punitive measure against the poor.
Grassroots immigration groups are in the best position to thwart Trump's mass deportation schemes.
In 2016 we learned that for some liberals, the best time to push for fundamental change is never. In 2020, we can expect more of the same.
Democrats and labor leaders are touting the renegotiated NAFTA deal as a win for workers and the planet. Don’t believe them: it’s a pro-corporate framework that will continue to bludgeon working people in Mexico, Canada, and the United States.
Hong Kong's government just withdrew the anti–civil liberties bill that set off massive, rolling protests and convulsed the city for months. But the political crisis is bigger than one measure — and protesters could be emboldened to push for even more.
A new bill in California would end the legal loophole that allows Uber and Lyft to pay drivers incredibly low wages and avoid paying benefits. It’s no surprise that the companies are mobilizing against the law: their business model is based on abusing their drivers.
With its assault on the estate tax, the GOP is demonstrating that it’s not even under the thumb of the 1 percent, but the 0.2 percent.
The European Union is the enemy of left internationalism, not its friend.
Whatever the claims of the media, Bernie Sanders's appeal does not seem limited to liberals.
Philadelphia. Yes, we've booed Santa Claus. But we've also had an incredibly rich history of labor militancy.
Part I: Tactical Media — “Anarcho-Liberalism’s” Half-Wit Step-Parent