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Work It
Simply saying we should improve the quality and reduce the duration of work doesn’t allow us to ask whether that work needs to exist at all.
Living, Not Just Surviving
Working-class movements must place social and ecological reproduction at the heart of their vision of the future.
Lost in Translation
Santa Is a Pervert and your other favorite Hollywood classics.
An AI-Powered Stock Market
The stock market is touching near all-time highs, while Americans’ credit scores are hitting an all-time low. Indicators of a dynamic business environment couldn’t be further from a realistic picture of ordinary citizens’ economic position.
Nationalism and the Great Recoil
Combating the nationalism of right-wingers like Giorgia Meloni shouldn’t mean defending the neoliberal consensus.
Disney Is Encouraging and Exploiting the Rise of “Kidults”
For most of the last half-century, the charge has been that American culture is stuck in adolescence. But adolescence, it turns out, was not the floor. Disney is leading the transformation, expanding into new age markets for maximum profit.
Australian Rules Football Dreams of World Domination
The Australian Football League is a corporation that longs for global expansion. But in its greed and desperation, the league is undermining what makes the game great.
A Teen Magazine for Grown-Ups
In a culture without a middle, Teen Vogue became a lodestar for aging millennials.
A New Democratic Party, From the Gasping of the Old
The issue of Palestine speaks to a range of constituencies that Zohran Mamdani is trying to stitch together into a new coalition — and creates a cleavage with the establishment leaders of the Democratic Party like Andrew Cuomo and Chuck Schumer.
How a Political Killing Took Over French Municipal Elections
The death of French far-right activist Quentin Deranque one month ago has cast a shadow over elections typically focused on local concerns.
Trump Wants Wall Street to Manage Your Retirement
Donald Trump is peddling a new plan that would steer Americans’ retirement dollars into Wall Street markets. Instead of shoring up the social safety net, financial experts warn that the White House is moving to privatize it.
Class Struggle Built the Swedish Welfare State
Swedish social democracy produced one of the most humane societies in history. That wouldn’t have happened without a militant labor movement and a working-class political party.
White-Collar Media
For most of the news media, the life and struggles of the majority class just aren’t newsworthy.
The Lyric Composers of the Concentration Camps
When German fascism came to power, it interrupted a revolutionary experiment in freedom exemplified by two classical composers: Arnold Schoenberg and Hanns Eisler.
Killer Robots and the Fetish of Automation
Fear of killer robots has obscured a deeper shift in warfare: The fetish of automation masks the commodification of combat judgment. Corporate software reshapes war while preserving just enough procedural “human control” to deflect responsibility.
The War on Bernie Sanders
The Democratic Party elite has launched a virtually unprecedented attack against Bernie Sanders.
We Can Only Go Beyond Communism by Coming to Terms With Its History
Thirty years ago today, the Soviet Union collapsed. Twentieth-century communism should be understood in all its complexity, as revolution and regime, a spur to anti-colonialism and an alternative form of social democracy.
Disaster Capitalists Want to “Reimagine” Public Education
Bill Gates, Andrew Cuomo, and other corporate education reformers are trying to use this moment of crisis to push through free-market school reforms. Their agenda is the exact opposite of what we actually need: a fully funded public education system that attacks racial and class inequalities.