Why India’s Economy Doesn’t Work
Economic woes that fueled last year’s unrest continue to hammer farmers and millions of others.
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Bernie Sanders Should Run for President a Third Time
Multiple reports say Bernie Sanders hasn’t ruled out another presidential campaign. He should go for it.
Australia’s Gas Crisis Proves It’s Time to Renationalize Energy
Politicians and energy companies say there’s a gas supply crisis, but huge price increases are caused by profiteering private corporations. It’s long past time to renationalize them.
Dark Money Built the Supreme Court’s Radical Conservative Supermajority
A secretive, well-financed dark money network helped build the Supreme Court’s radical conservative supermajority and has been bankrolling its toxic caseload — all to create the appearance of broad-based support for extremist rulings.
We Should Criticize Corporate Greed All the Time
It’s not just supply chain issues and energy costs that are making everyone’s lives miserable — it’s the fact that we live in a system that takes from the working majority in order to enrich the plutocratic few.
Multinational Corporations Are Sucking Mexico Dry
In Mexico, water has been transformed from a public resource into a commodity to be sold for profit. It means that corporations can consume water in high quantities while people lack basic access to drinking water.
The Labour Party’s Right Wing Only Cares About Destroying Socialism
The Forde report, an inquiry into antisemitism within the Labour Party, has found that the Right cynically used accusations of racism to undermine the Left. In the two years since it was commissioned, nothing has changed.
To No One’s Surprise, Joe Manchin’s Former Top Aide Is Now a Corporate Lobbyist
After working as a top aide for Senator Joe Manchin, Jonathan Kott launched an anti–Bernie Sanders dark money group and now lobbies for oil giants, Big Pharma, and Fox News. His career is a perfect illustration of DC’s corrupt revolving-door culture.
Veteran Brittany Ramos DeBarros Is Running for Congress to Stop America’s Endless Wars
In New York’s 11th Congressional District, two veterans are competing for the Democratic nomination. One is a centrist who will strengthen the military-industrial complex; the other is a democratic socialist who built her career fighting it.
The Defeat of Public Energy in Maine Isn’t Reason for Despair
Earlier this month, Maine’s voters rejected a referendum for publicly owned energy after a disinformation campaign led by the energy lobby. But in the US, ordinary people have beaten these interests in the past, and they can do so again.
Elon Musk and Silicon Valley Don’t Know How to Fix the Transportation System
Elon Musk and his billionaire brethren have all sorts of harebrained solutions to fix US transportation. But we already know what would benefit workers: well-funded public transit and fast trains, powered by a renewable energy grid that serves everyone.
The Prison-Industrial Complex Goes Beyond Cops and Jails. It’s All Around Us.
Police and mass incarceration are only the most visible and obvious manifestations of the prison-industrial complex. Ruth Wilson Gilmore argues that the prison-industrial complex is a holistic social organizing principle that pervades life under capitalism.
Joe Biden Has Barely Expanded the Welfare State
Remember all that talk of Joe Biden being the next FDR? Going into the midterms, the most he's going to deliver is one minor tweak to the welfare state — hardly the sweeping measures to help workers and the poor that we were promised.
Why the Philippine Elite Continues to Back US Empire
Amid rising tensions in the Southeast Asian Sea, both the US and China are courting the Philippines. Most Filipinos would prefer a nonaligned foreign policy — but Manila’s elites keep lining up with the US, further threatening regional peace and stability.
The Privatization of the Port of Haifa Is a Move to Make Political Allies for Israel
The sell-off of the Port of Haifa looks like a takeover by corporate interests. Yet the acquisition was led by a close ally of Indian premier Narendra Modi — showing its ties to Israel’s strategy of finding autocratic allies abroad.
In San Antonio, a Socialist City Council Member Stands Against Austerity
Teri Castillo, a housing organizer and Democratic Socialists of America member, is fighting on the San Antonio City Council for public investment in housing, health care, education, utilities, and more. Castillo says the era of municipal austerity must end.
Red the Fed
The Federal Reserve’s response to inflation is bad for workers — but it doesn’t need to be.
Despite Its Flaws, the IRA Will Raise Taxes on Corporate Profits and Stock Buybacks
The Inflation Reduction Act was a compromise from the outset, and Senator Kyrsten Sinema made its tax provisions even worse. But the legislation will still raise billions in revenue by creating a fairer tax burden for corporations.
“Dark Brandon” Is a Symptom of Powerlessness
“Dark Brandon” memes are jokes, but they express a deeply felt wish that Joe Biden would turn out to be a firebrand progressive at heart. But Biden is Biden — at his core, he’ll always be a corporate-friendly centrist.
Issue 46: Letters
If you read our issue, we’ll read your letters.