Fear of a Capitalist Planet
Astronomers look to the stars, and only see themselves.
Astronomers look to the stars, and only see themselves.

How the Sierra Club came to dabble with neo-Malthusianism.
Turning Uber into a worker cooperative would be surprisingly simple.

Seventy-five years after the Nazis murdered him, we celebrate the life of German anti-fascist athlete and communist resistance fighter Werner Seelenbinder.
Naomi Klein on the crackdown against COP21 protesters and why "system change not climate change” is more than a slogan.
We are at the beginning of a new period of mass protests that will reshape American politics.
The propaganda war against Hamas targets the legitimacy of Palestinian resistance itself.

The Trump administration is pushing a vicious anti-trans agenda. Unions are one of the best tools we have to fight back.
The jargon of school reformers only masks the poverty that stifles student achievement.

Beto O’Rourke is actually right about something — everyone has the right to live within a reasonable distance of where they work. But to make that right a reality, we’ll need an industrial and housing policy that values people over profit.

Gabriel García Márquez on Fidel Castro, the Soviet Union, and creating “a government which would make the poor happy.”

What happens when irresistible Brexit meets an immovable EU? Theresa May will soon find out.
In choosing Barbara Madeloni as president, the Massachusetts Teachers Association has elected a fierce opponent of neoliberal education reform.

By viciously attacking transgender kids and their families, Texas governor Greg Abbott and his conservative admirers have proven that they’re talking nonsense when they claim to care about shielding families from the overreach of government bureaucrats.

Liberal democracy gives us essential rights like free speech and civil liberties. But without challenging the domination of capital, liberal rights will always be curtailed by the power of the rich.
The Trump administration appropriates 250 years’ worth of American propaganda.