By Zack Budryk Environmental organized crime is a massive global enterprise, bringing in hundreds of billions of dollars each year—and the U.S. financial system appears to be helping conceal its profits. Interpol estimates that environmental crime…
By Rainforest Action Network The recently released 15th annual Banking on Climate Chaos report employs a new, expanded data set that credits each bank making financial contributions to a deal instead of only crediting banks…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…