Medical schools in the United States used to acquire corpses for research from literal grave robbers. They don’t anymore — but in most US states, your corpse may still end up on a medical slab without your consent if no one will pick up the tab to bury you.
Megapopular right-wing YouTube channel PragerU’s “moral case for capitalism” fails to address capitalism’s massive defects — its injustice, exploitation, and instability. Instead, it offers a glib pep talk about why modern society is better than feudalism.
Spiritual needs are more likely to be satiated if the basics — food, clothing, shelter, and employment — are met first.
For the first century of its existence, the organized left mobilized around the “labor question”: who determines the what and how of production. For years, though, the Left has abandoned this question for a concern with inequality — at its own peril.
Artificial intelligence has the potential to seriously harm workers — not because of something inherent to the technology, but because bosses are in control of it.
Brad DeLong’s sweeping history in Slouching Towards Utopia chronicles a century of unprecedented economic progress driven by markets and innovation. But his faith in capitalism’s innovations undermines his attempts to make sense of this tumultuous era.
The ghostly emptiness of capitalist realism obscures the potential for collective joy and abundance. Mark Fisher’s writing offers a glimpse of the possibilities that lie beyond the seeming inevitability of the present.
Born in the seventeenth century, our faith in progress is now at death’s door. Sociologist Göran Therborn traces the idea’s history — and argues that it must be revived.
As Russell Vought and the Office of Management and Budget more explicitly become the engine of Donald Trump’s second term, a handful of little-known appointees at the agency may point the way to its future.
The global birth rate collapse threatens more than economic dynamism and the viability of the welfare state. It poses a threat to the future of radical politics.
We all wondered, as we watched Back to the Future, how alternative futures could change the whole universe while Marty McFly stayed the same.
Profit is the motor of capitalism. What would it be under socialism?
The failings of the Affordable Care Act are rooted in a long shift away from the idea of a truly universal health care.
We will not go into the socialist city blindly, but with lessons from a century of experiments.
With a week to go until the elections, Greece's final campaign advertisements show the tides are still with Syriza.
The surrogacy industry shows how difficult it will be to make new reproductive technologies benefit all.
Podemos emerged in resistance to Spain’s political establishment. But what are the limits to its populist strategy?
Freelancers have more in common with other workers than with small-business entrepreneurs.
Detroit is evicting tens of thousands from their homes this year, even as it trumpets an urban revival.