The Tax Sharks Are Back
And They’re Coming for Your Home Commentary by Cory Doctorow One of my weirder and more rewarding hobbies is collecting definitions of “conservativism,” and one of the jewels of that collection comes from Corey Robin’s…
Why We’re Paying More for Less
Corporate price-fixing is driving inflation Matt Stoller In 2022, the Biden administration and the oil industry were in a brutal fight over oil prices. The president was demanding that domestic oil producers invest and drill…
Capitalism Is Bad For Your Mental Health
By Belén Fernández When I was in high school in Texas in the late 1990s, running myself ragged with academic and extracurricular activities, I began suffering from acute panic attacks. The first round lasted for…
Venezuela’s Government Delivers 4.9 Million Homes
By Andreína Chávez Alava The Venezuelan government marked the 13th anniversary of Venezuela’s Great Housing Mission (GMVV) by celebrating the 4.9 millionth home delivered to working-class families. On April 30, President Nicolás Maduro unveiled the…
Sumaq Kawsay
Alternative development rooted in the wellbeing of humans and nature By Sammi Bennett & Krystyna Swiderska Across the world, people are questioning dominant narratives of social progress based on capital accumulation and natural resource extraction….
Connecticut Baby Bonds Fight the Wealth Gap
By Lynn Parramore Consider a tale of two babies born in the same American city, Jake and Justin. Jake, born into an economically secure white family, is primed for success. His grandparents set up a…
As Surgeons, We Have Never Seen Cruelty
Like Israel’s Genocide in Gaza By Feroze Sidhwa and Mark Perlmutter On March 25 the two of us, an orthopedic surgeon and a trauma surgeon, traveled to the Gaza Strip to work at Gaza European…
Antifascism After Gaza
By Alberto Toscano Over the past few years, discussions of fascism in the United States have, unsurprisingly, followed an electoral cadence, focused more on the presidency of Donald Trump past and possibly future—than on the…
The Peace Movement at an Inflection Point
By Roger D. Harris The North American peace movement is contesting ongoing US wars in Ukraine and Palestine and preparations for war with China. Out of the fog of these wars, a clear anti-imperialist focus…
Grocery Workers Challenge Union Bosses
The fight for a rank-and-file union By Hamilton Nolan On February 6, 1919, 25,000 Seattle workers from more than 100 different unions walked out in support of 35,000 striking shipyard workers. It was global news….