Despite the Pandemic, Republicans Are Fighting Paid Sick Leave All Over the Country
Under the guise of helping businesses, the GOP is working to bar medical leave mandates in state by state across the country.
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David Graeber Knew Ordinary People Could Remake the World
A new book by David Wengrow and the late David Graeber is a brilliant rejection of the fatalistic myths of human history — and a defense of our power to shape our own world.
Cryptocurrency Is Bunk
Cryptocurrency promises to liberate the monetary system from the clutches of the powerful. Instead, it mostly functions to make wealthy speculators even wealthier.
What Liberalism Gets Right — And Wrong
The liberal tradition is a complex body of thought that socialists should grapple with seriously. But today, preserving the gains of liberalism — civil liberties, free speech, and social pluralism — means rejecting the liberal defense of capitalist private property rights.
For-Profit Remote Learning Is a Disaster for Students and Teachers Alike
The pandemic taught us two lessons: in-person learning is optimal, and remote learning is sometimes necessary. We should improve public digital learning infrastructure, or else private companies will corner the market and use it to undermine public education.
If Hollywood Workers Strike, the Entertainment Industry Will Grind to a Halt
In a display of worker militancy not seen in Hollywood for decades, members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) are about to vote on whether 60,000 of them will go on strike in October.
Tell Us What You Really Think
Before J. D. Vance became a booster for Trump, he was a brutal critic.
Democrats Have Delivered for Wall Street Yet Again
Democrats pretended they were cracking down on private equity moguls. The truth: Dems were actually protecting them — perhaps because private equity firms are major Democratic donors.
Celebrate Today, Fight Tomorrow
It appears Joe Biden will defeat Donald Trump, which is a very good thing. Now, get ready to fight — because oligarchs will concede nothing in their class war.
Amazon Is Getting Nervous About a California Warehouse Worker Safety Bill
A warehouse safety bill proposed in the California legislature could force Amazon to be transparent about its productivity quotas — and threaten the aura of invincibility and omnipotence the company uses to intimidate and silence workers.
A Biden Win and a GOP Senate Spells Stalemate — or Worse
Nothing is certain yet, but we may be gearing up for what amounts to a Biden-McConnell coalition government. The Left will be up against a split government composed of two parties bent on pushing austerity and war.
Joe Biden Needs to Get Serious About Voting Rights
As a matter of both principle and self-interest, Joe Biden should pull out the stops to abolish the filibuster and safeguard the right to vote, which is now under threat from GOP governments in dozens of states. So far, he seems uninterested.
Propping Up Bondholders and Letting Down the Global Poor
International financial institutions and G20 countries have constructed a partnership to benefit private finance at the expense of the citizens in poor countries. We need a radically different development model.
How to Solve the Housing Problem
The size of the housing crisis can be daunting, but with a committed political movement and a little bit of state power, it can be confronted.
Most Politicians Don’t Care About Workers. But Unions Can Make Them.
New research finds that strong unions are pretty effective at making politicians pay attention to the interests of ordinary people. In order to pursue a real pro-worker agenda in government, we need an emboldened labor movement.
The Welfare State Isn’t About Charity
The current round of partisan shadowboxing around unemployment benefits misses the point: the purpose of a real welfare state is to free people from the drudgery, precarity, and misery of low-wage work.
We’re in an Evictions Crisis. Here Are 4 Steps to End It.
When housing is a profit-making venture rather than a human right, we’re perpetually stuck in an evictions crisis. Right now, that crisis is particularly dire. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Over Half of Households Are Having Trouble Paying Their Bills
Things may not be trending in the right direction for workers in the United States.
The Senate Just Abandoned the Working Class Without a COVID-19 Relief Package
Federal unemployment has dried up, rent is past due, evictions are proceeding, the cupboards are bare, and the Senate has adjourned without passing a new coronavirus relief package. Their abandonment of the working class is shameless, but hardly shocking.