Joe Lieberman? Really?
Joe Lieberman is offering warnings about the rising left. While laughing at his advice, you should also remember how absolutely terrible his entire career has been.
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The Politics of Getting a Life
Work in a capitalist society is a conflicted and contradictory phenomenon.
Which Side Are They On?
A titanic struggle is brewing in California between Silicon Valley capitalists and workers. Democratic Party elites will have to pick a side.
Yes, Ronald Reagan Would Have Stood For Trump’s Treatment of the Press
Pundits would like you to think Trump's attacks on the press are unprecedented. But previous presidents like Reagan were even worse.
The Socialist Case for Gun Control
We have a moral obligation to challenge a gun lobby callously destroying the lives of ordinary people.
The Extremist Formula
It's telling that sections of the media think that Islam is the decisive factor in cases like Orlando.
When the Normal Is Insane
Tonight, Trump will continue the longest war in US history.
Take Your Guns to Town
US warmongering left North Korea with a simple lesson: it might be worth hanging on to its nuclear weapons.
Misremembering Keynes
The postwar order that emerged from the Great Depression was as fragile as it was prosperous.
The Vietnam War Is Not Over
Ken Burns's documentary on the Vietnam War seeks a premature closure.
The US Helped Massacre Yemeni Schoolchildren
The slaughter of forty Yemeni schoolchildren was the direct result of US imperialism and the profit-hungry arms industry.
Keeping Up Appearances
Top-down reforms play at change while leaving the core of American policing intact.
The Left After Leave
Brexit offered the Left bad choices, and its aftermath has emboldened a racist right. What do we do now?
More Than An Epithet
What Jonathan Chait doesn't get about neoliberalism.
What Abolitionists Do
Prison abolitionists aren't naive dreamers. They're organizing for concrete reforms, animated by a radical critique of state violence.
Locke’s Folly
Jeffersonian Democrats made a serious attempt to implement Locke’s theories. Colonization and expropriation followed.
An Open Letter to the British Left
A Greek leftist on why British socialists shouldn’t shy away from rejecting the European Union.
What Happened in Turkey?
Turkey's failed military coup wasn't in service of democracy — but neither is Erdoğan's countercoup.