Making ‘Tax the Rich’ More Than a Slogan
By Max Page Taxing the rich should bring a smile to your face. It certainly brings one to mine. Here’s what passing the Fair Share Amendment in Massachusetts allowed us to do, in just the…
January 2026
Dollar Store Workers Fight to Improve Jobs
Even Without a Union By Jesse Baum When a Dollar General stocker named David Williams saw two of his co-workers struggling to subdue a would-be shoplifter who was carrying a knife in 2019, the then-33-year-old…
ICE Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers
Commentary by Kathryn Rubino Did you have immigration lawyer watch list on your 2025 authoritarianism BINGO card? If so, congrats! But for everyone else, it’s yet another sad slide into federal control to learn that…
The Global Gag Order Shielding Corporate Tax Cheaters
By Mark Bou Mansour A US-backed global gag order preventing governments from revealing the names of multinational corporations found shifting billions into tax havens has caused countries to miss out on over US$475 billion in…
From Coast to Coast, the Public Banking Movement Grows
By Marco Rosaire Rossi After years of being considered a niche concept, relegated to a few academic articles and zealous activists, the idea of public banking is about to hit the mainstream. From coast to…
California Bans Coercive Pricing Algorithms
By Lee Hepner Popular depictions of cartels evoke secretive, dangerous—shamelessly glamorized—drug cartels. Or corporate whistleblowers being trailed, wiretapped, and threatened by anonymous thugs with chiseled jaws and tinted windows. Of course, there are the fat…
Koch Network Pushes Trump to Accelerate AI
By Geoff Dembicki A political group created by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch earlier this year wrote to the U.S. government making requests about artificial intelligence. “To seize the moment and ensure that AI…
Maybe a General Strike Isn’t So Impossible Now
By Alex Han Trump’s attacks on working people—threats to send troops into major U.S. cities, ripping collective bargaining rights from a million federal workers, an immigration enforcement terror campaign that borders on unconstitutional—have been so…
Kerala Has Abolished Extreme Poverty
By Vijay Prashad On 1 November 2025, the south-western Indian state of Kerala—home to 34 million people—was declared free from extreme poverty by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Kerala is one of the few places in…
Venezuela Under Siege
A Hundred Deaths at Sea – Hundreds of Thousands by Sanctions By Roger D. Harris Washington is targeting the Venezuelan people in an escalating regime-change offensive, combining open military violence with an economic siege that…