$8.5 Trillion in Untaxed Assets
Data Shows Why We Need a Billionaire Tax By Jake Johnson An analysis released in early January shows that in 2022, the wealthiest people in the United States collectively held a “staggering” $8.5 trillion in…
The US Is No Country for Old Men
Commentary by Belén Fernández Shortly prior to his death from prostate cancer in August of this year at the age of 72, my father emerged from a state of muteness to recite, with a burst…
The Double Objective of Democratic Ecosocialism
By Jason Hickel We face a double crisis as the twenty-first century unfolds. On the one hand, it is an ecological crisis: climate change and several other Earth System pressures are exceeding planetary boundaries to…
First Avenue Workers’ Victory
Another Win for Union and Worker Center Collaborations By Isabela Escalona In the late summer of 2021, a group of workers from First Avenue, the iconic Minneapolis music venue, were fed up with low pay,…
Bordering on the Ridiculous
Cynical hypocrisy on immigration policy Commentary by Rob Schofield As with so many other problems afflicting modern America—the climate emergency, economic inequality, the federal debt, gun violence, racism, our threadbare public education system—there’s plenty of…
How Much of Trump’s Support Is Due to Racism?
Commentary by Dan Froomkin There is one theory that fully explains the massive support that Trump continues to get among the Republican voting base: That they’re racist. To be clear, this is a theory, not…
Donald Trump and the Exceptions of American Evangelicalism
By John G. Stackhouse, Jr. As Republicans continue to contend over their party’s presidential nomination—if “contend” is the right word for “jockeying to see who will be the last candidate knocked off by Donald Trump”—Trump…
Abortion Rights Amendment on Florida Ballot
By Zane McNeill Floridians Protecting Freedom, a campaign advocating for the inclusion of the right to abortion on the 2024 ballot, has successfully gathered 910,946 verified signatures in favor of the initiative, surpassing the number…
Are We the Baddies?
Commentary by Jonathan Cook The desperate smear campaign to defend Israel’s crimes highlights the toxic brew of lies that’s been underpinning the liberal democratic order for decades. In a popular British comedy sketch set during…
The Spectacular Failure of the Zionist Project
Commentary by Stefan Moore As a secular Jew raised in a fiercely anti-Zionist family, I grew up viewing the State of Israel as an unfortunate fait accompli and accepting that the two-state solution was probably…