The Small-Town Charter Wars
The fight to stop the growth of a charter school in one small New Jersey town.
The fight to stop the growth of a charter school in one small New Jersey town.

In China and beyond, liberalized markets aren't fostering democracy — they're undermining it.
Ending the scourge of mass incarceration will require seeking justice not just for the innocent but for the guilty.
Mocking hipsters in the service of capital.
“Sharing economy” companies like Uber shift risk from corporations to workers, weaken labor protections, and drive down wages.

UPS wants holiday cheer delivered quicker — even if it kills their workers.
The Democratic donor class will resist the very policies that could unite workers of all races. They can't subdue Trumpism.

Liberals want to smear Jean-Luc Mélenchon as a xenophobe. In fact, they fear his potential to unite the oppressed.

We're living through another crisis of American family farming. But don't expect a rural revolt any time soon.

For Indigenous Australians, Australia Day commemorates nothing but the invasion of their territories. While the Change the Date campaign gathers momentum, only a Treaty can begin to address the trauma and bloodshed of British settlement.
The refugee crisis only has one just solution: open borders.
Macedonia shows that without radical politics, political crisis is the new status quo.

A crypto super PAC is intervening in a competitive Maryland Democratic primary to back Adrian Boafo, a lobbyist who has been working for cloud-computing tech firm Oracle while simultaneously serving as a state lawmaker.

Workers at Google just scored an impressive victory against US militarism.
Rebuilding the labor movement will take organizing, not just mobilizing.

The Flint, Michigan, water crisis is one of the worst human-caused environmental disasters of our era. It was also one of the most egregious cover-ups of our time, with new investigative reporting revealing how politicians scrambled to muzzle sick residents.

Presidents and ex-presidents should be subject to the same laws as the rest of us. But don’t be too quick to assume this conviction will save Joe Biden.

European leaders have been looking for ways to loosen budgetary rules so they can increase military budgets. But the new policy regime won’t create more room for the social and ecological investment Europe desperately needs after years of austerity.

Pink Tide populism was built in the context of two decades of deindustrialization and industrial fragmentation. But we need a socialist left that can reverse those very trends.

Bidenomics wasn’t ambitious enough, but the solution isn’t just more welfare.