The Progressive Case for the SAT
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“All Humans Are Born Equal”
The early German socialists fought for the persecuted at home and abroad — convinced that the liberation of workers in Germany was linked to the liberation of oppressed peoples around the globe.
Up From Liberalism
Only a forthright anticapitalism can end the reign of Third Way politics.
Reparations Isn’t a Political Demand
The reparations demand resides largely in the realm of the political imaginary. There are more effective means of fighting oppression.
“At the Heart of Democratic Socialism Is the Ethic of Solidarity”
Nikil Saval is a union campaigner, leftist magazine editor, and a democratic socialist who is running for Pennsylvania State House. In an interview with Jacobin, he talks about his history of working on hotel workers’ boycotts and editing n+1, how the Bernie Sanders campaign inspired him to run for office to advance left politics, and building a Pennsylvania and a world for the many, not the few.
What Should Socialists Do?
Democratic socialism needs to become a mass presence in US society.
A Socialist Response to Neoliberal Globalization
Capital controls are a necessary first step, but we’ll need more radical reform to promote just trade and the economic development of all nations.
Voices From the Sweltering Inside
The recent protests at the St Louis Workhouse jail serve as a brutal reminder that American prisons are oppressive hellholes.
Why the Democratic and Republican Establishments Can’t Stop Insurgents
For decades, political parties have been hollowed out by the forces of neoliberalism and social atomization. Now, in the era of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, they’re in crisis — and they have only themselves to blame.
Falling Without a Net
Recent data from the Center for Disease Control show an alarming spike in suicides across the United States. We can’t prevent every suicide by rebuilding our social safety net. But the uptick is a collective failure — one that requires political solutions.
Crash and Burn
You can't have capitalist growth without environmental destruction.
More Than An Epithet
What Jonathan Chait doesn't get about neoliberalism.
Keeping Up Appearances
Top-down reforms play at change while leaving the core of American policing intact.
The Socialist Case for Gun Control
We have a moral obligation to challenge a gun lobby callously destroying the lives of ordinary people.
2020 Will See an Elite Crack-Up of Epic Proportions
If the establishment got this nervous about Donald Trump in 2016, then imagine how much they'll meltdown with the rise of democratic-socialist Bernie Sanders in 2020.
When the Floods Hit
The catastrophic flooding in India shows that the greatest victims of global warming will be those least responsible for it.
The Democratic Party Is a Ghost
Democratic Party elites don’t have ideals. They just need you to be scared of the Republicans.
The End of the United Kingdom?
Brexit has suddenly made Scottish independence and a united Ireland possible. What does it mean for the Left?
Don’t Trust the Process
Impeachment has failed, but Democrats are still trying to defeat Trump by focusing on process over policy. They're going to keep failing — the only way to get rid of Trump is to beat him at the polls.