Cyberlibertarians’ Digital Deletion of the Left
Technological innovation does not inherently promote the left's goals.
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Fear of a Capitalist Planet
Astronomers look to the stars, and only see themselves.
Why the Rich Love Burning Man
Burning Man became a festival that rich libertarians love because it never had a radical critique at its core.
Living, Not Just Surviving
Working-class movements must place social and ecological reproduction at the heart of their vision of the future.
Victory Over the Sun
Postwar America’s greatest environmentalist was a labor leader.
Westworld’s Choice
Westworld has the potential to be something more than another libertarian piece of science fiction.
Politics Is Not Harry Potter
Liberals love Harry Potter because it presents a world they desperately wish was a reality — one where the magic of facts and reason and elite education were enough to vanquish the ills of society.
A Green New Deal for Housing
A Green New Deal can’t deliver economic or environmental justice without tackling the housing crisis. We should go big and build 10 million beautiful, public, no-carbon homes over the next 10 years.
We Need a Green New Deal for Housing
What would a bold left-wing housing plan look like? Let’s build ten million new, public, no-carbon homes in ten years and guarantee housing for all.
Bernie Wants to Seize the Means of Electricity Production
Bernie Sanders's Green New Deal proposal isn't just the boldest proposal to save the planet that any candidate has made yet. It also includes the United States moving to 100 percent public ownership of our power grid.
Why We Want to Abolish Billionaires
Hard work doesn’t get you a billion dollars — rent extraction, financial speculation, resource monopolization, and exploiting working people does. We don’t envy the superrich, we want to stop them.
There’s No Appeasing Bill Gates
Bill Gates has managed to craft a reputation as a billionaire with a social conscience. But his recent comments on proposals for a wealth tax leave no room for doubt about whose side he’s on.
The WeWork Con
The $47 billion WeWork implosion is proof that the rich are the biggest suckers of all.
Against Self-Driving Cars
Instead of spending billions developing driverless cars we should be building sustainable people-centered transportation.
Our Public Health Infrastructure Is Losing a Fight With Capitalism
COVID-19 teaches us why Medicare for All should be the floor of our demands, not the ceiling. As an epidemiologist argues, we need to radically rebuild our entire public health infrastructure.
We Can Stop Pandemic Profiteering
If we are going to avert the worst-case COVID-19 scenario and prevent unimaginable human suffering, we have to fight — and even nationalize — the corporations that are trying to profit off of this crisis at everyone else’s expense.
Letters + Celebrities Speak
Life is better if you own a yacht.
Only Class War Can Stop Climate Change
A new report shows that the world’s top 1 percent is responsible for double the emissions of the entire bottom half of the planet. The message is clear: to fight climate change, we have to fight the ruling class.
Yes, the World’s Richest Nation Can Afford $2,000 Survival Checks
Jeff Bezos’s personal wealth increased more every second of 2020 ($2,800) than Congress is considering giving Americans who are facing eviction, starvation, and bankruptcy ($2,000).
Ken Klippenstein Knows Where the Bodies Are Buried
Investigative reporter Ken Klippenstein, who will soon be joining the staff of the Intercept, has honed the craft of Twitter trolling to an art form. But he’d prefer to be known for his journalistic scoops, based on a painstaking analysis of declassified documents and a roster of sources working in the bowels of federal agencies.