The Best Way to Support Cubans Is to End the US Blockade
The Left’s approach to Cuba should be simple: oppose US attempts to devastate the country’s economy through the blockade.
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No, the Racial Justice Protests Are Not at Odds With Class Politics
Ross Douthat wants to tempt socialists with his argument that this wave of racial justice protest is hopelessly in thrall to the logic of woke capitalism. Don’t take the bait.
Fox News Knew Donald Trump’s Election Fraud Claims Were False. They Broadcast Them Anyway.
In 2020, Fox News anchors Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity pushed Donald Trump’s election fraud claims for weeks. New documents suggest they never believed any of it.
Intel Wants Public Money to Make Rich Shareholders Richer
Intel is awash in cash, spending billions on stock buybacks that made shareholders even richer. Yet the Biden administration is poised to give the company a no-strings-attached bailout that could further enrich those same shareholders.
The New Cold War Will Be Powered by AI
When the White House reportedly pressed Anthropic to pull a new model over the weekend, it looked like a clash between Washington and Silicon Valley. Instead, the episode revealed a growing consensus: AI is now a tool for great power competition.
Making Health Care “Accessible and Affordable” Isn’t the Same as Making It Universal and Free
Centrist Democrats use phrases like “accessible and quality health care” to sound like they support reforming the broken US health care system while avoiding the only genuine reform: removing health care from the market altogether.
We Would Never Tolerate Julian Assange’s Persecution If Any Other Country Carried It Out
If Russia were persecuting a whistleblower like Julian Assange, the US would rightly condemn it as authoritarian abuse. But because that persecution is backed by the US, the mainstream media and American politicians are fine with it.
Big Oil’s Price Gouging Is Pulling in Big Profits
As high gas prices continue to affect working Americans and to be a key factor in the upcoming midterm elections, three of the biggest oil and gas companies posted more than $40 billion in quarterly profits this week.
Health Care Giants Are Making Millions off of Unfair Medicare Overpayments
Health insurers have made millions of dollars off of overpayments from Medicare. The industry is gearing up to fight any effort for the government to demand that money back.
The For-Profit Takeover of Medicare Is a Huge Scam
Last year, the federal government spent $20.5 billion overpaying private insurers for Medicare Advantage plans — and the industry’s aggressive lobbying campaign is kneecapping efforts by lawmakers to stop the scheme.
Will Kamala Harris Finally Kill the Billionaire Tax Break?
Kamala Harris has signaled she supports closing the carried interest tax loophole, an enormous boon to rich investors looking to avoid higher taxes. But she’s also received $80 million this year from finance, insurance, and real-estate sectors.
There’s No Such Thing as a Good Billionaire
Democrats want us to believe that there is some cohort of “good billionaires” who can be relied upon to fight for political progress. But as the right-wing turn of tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk suggests, this is nonsense.
The Far-Right Israel Lobby Is Shutting Down Democratic Voices for Palestinian Rights
AIPAC is funneling mounds of money to pro-Israel candidates, including in Democratic primaries. Now, all Democrats likely know that expressing anything short of unwavering support of Israel’s siege on Gaza means they might be outspent in the next election.
Democrats Are Ditching Class, and It’s Costing Them Working-Class Voters
Neither mainstream American political party has a compelling message for working-class voters. As a result, voters are starting to vote in line with their cultural opinions, not their class interests. Unfortunately, that’s good news for the Right.
This Week, Democratic Leaders Rejected Medicare for All Again
This past week, the committee in charge of setting the Democratic Party's platform decisively rejected Medicare for All — even as millions of Americans are poised to lose their health insurance. It's just another sign pointing to the moral bankruptcy of the political order.
The Left Needs the “Uneducated” Working Class
All around the world, the Left has been hemorrhaging working-class support for decades. To think it could achieve long-run success as the champion of affluent cosmopolitanism is whistling past the graveyard.
On a $15 Minimum Wage, Bernie Was on the Right Side of History
Eight Democrats joined with Republicans yesterday to prevent Bernie Sanders from moving to add a $15 minimum wage to the COVID relief bill. History will not absolve them.
Biden’s New COVID Czar Should Push for Global Vaccine Equity
Dr Ashish Jha is the White House’s new COVID-19 response coordinator. He has an opportunity to reverse the Biden administration’s course and push for global vaccine equity — but all signs indicate he won’t.
Nationalize Baby Formula Production
Across the country, millions of parents are desperately searching for baby formula. Why are we letting the private sector alone handle such a vital good?
1,100 Union Miners in Alabama Are Now in Their Fifth Month on Strike
More than 1,000 union miners have been on strike in Alabama for months, resisting a company that puts its shareholders over workers’ well-being. Yet the political establishment remains conspicuously silent — showing again they have little regard for the working class.