One Year Off, Every Seven Years
How about this for a demand? You work for six years and you get a whole paid year off to do whatever the hell you want.
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Remembering Rosalyn Baxandall
Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall, who died last Tuesday, was a pioneering figure of socialist feminism in the United States.
TSA Is on a Brown-Bag Strike — and Crippling Airports
TSA agents across the country are engaged in guerrilla organizing: an illegal, partial wildcat strike in protest of the government shutdown that has left them working for weeks on end without pay.
The Fight for Abortion Must Be Part of the Fight for Medicare for All
Anti-abortion advocates have gained ground in recent decades by separating abortion from health care overall. We have to see abortion rights as an integral part of the fight for Medicare for All.
The Beginning of the End
The Tet Offensive was a powerful blow against US imperialism and a boon to the antiwar movement.
Let Them Eat Profit
Governments have turned a blind eye to tax havens in order to protect corporate profitability.
After Trumpcare
Republicans wanted to repeal Obamacare and gut Medicaid. Instead they galvanized the push for Medicare for All.
Death to the Gamer
Tainted by its misogyny and embrace of consumption as a way of life, gamer culture isn’t worth saving.
Dwight Macdonald After the Death of Liberalism
The defining feature of American imperialism is its combination of an enormous capacity for death and destruction with an equally enormous sense of self-entitlement. Cold War journalist Dwight Macdonald understood this outlook better than most.
The “Just Say No to Drugs” Campaign Had Its Roots in Anti-Communist Propaganda
The “Just Say No” campaign is remembered today for the huge quantity of kitsch media it produced, like McGruff the Crime Dog. But the campaign was based on the psychological warfare techniques of the Cold War.
Rise of the Clay Jock
Like the slow-food celebrity chef, fitness coach, or makeup guru, pottery has become yet another flavor of instantly consumable content.
When the Old World Unraveled
Before 1968, we felt confident in everything. Afterwards, we knew everything had to change.
Capitalism Hates Collective Fun
Human beings are wired for collective, public fun — the kind that a game like Wordle provides. But capitalism, with its relentless drive to privatize, insists instead that entertainments are best experienced as individualized, solitary pursuits.
Join Our War on Christmas
This holiday season, smash Santa and help your favorite magazine grow.
The Radical Imagination of Mike Davis
There was nothing mechanical or deterministic about the Marxism of Mike Davis, writes labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein.
“The Most Effective Way to Stop Police Terror Is Action at the Point of Production”
Longshore workers on the East and West Coast are stopping work today to demand an end to racist police murders. We spoke with one of the protest organizers about the action — and why labor must take the lead in the fight against police violence.
Arresting the Carceral State
Educators must work to end the school-to-prison pipeline.