An interview with Jillian C. York, the author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech under Surveillance Capitalism.
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We need to be cautious when we start discarding parts of our intellectual and political toolkit. We might toss things overboard that could inform our political sensibilities today.
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The Mexican president continues to decry neoliberalism, but his government is failing to build an effective alternative to it.
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The rise of the global middle class threatens to blow up the environmental envelope. Can the link between income and emissions be broken?
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Jo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union in the United Kingdom, talks about the prospects for a truly feminist labor movement.
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Fear and rage can be an entry point into the rejection of violence against women but not the termination or sum of our collaborations.
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An interview with Gabriel Winant on deindustrialization, the care economy, and the living legacies of the industrial workers’ movement.
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A closer look at the Italian prime minister’s career reveals how the tangled history of post-Keynesian economic thought shaped his technocratic brand.
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Deference to state governments has severely undermined public health efforts during the pandemic and deepened geographic inequality in the United States.
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To have any chance of implementing popular left-wing ideas, we need to restore the capacity of democratic government to serve working people.
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The PRO Act would establish a baseline for ensuring that working people can fight for and win transformative climate policies that benefit everyone.
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A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has tossed out criminal charges against the former president. His enduring relationship with working-class voters makes him a serious contender in next year’s election.
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An interview with Sarah Jaffe on labors of love, the women who shut down Woolworth’s, Colin Kaepernick, and why class is not a static identity.
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Rita Pasarell, former Albany legislative staffer and co-founder of the Sexual Harassment Working Group, discusses recent accusations against Andrew Cuomo.
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To honor the 1965 Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March, we must continue the work it started.
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As the mainstream media has consolidated behind the BJP, independent journalism in India has become a dangerous activity. And no group is more vulnerable than Muslim reporters.
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To promote democratic and egalitarian ideals today, we need to break with the anxieties that drove U.S. politics during the Cold War.
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Politicians fear the disruptive power of a mobilized base, even when it helps them succeed.
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MMT’s account of the origin of money is a useful corrective to the stories told by orthodox economists. But a deeper history of the social construction of money opens up more radical possibilities for rethinking the monetary order.
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We’re still living with the punitive politics of family values. A broader, universal vision can break its vise grip.
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California’s progressive image can be misleading. But it’s also home to activists fighting to change the state for the better.
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Celine McNicholas of the Economic Policy Institute digs into the PRO Act and other labor policies currently on the table.
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The idea that more degrees, credentials, and skills will raise the bottom of the economic floor has become an article of national faith. But educational systems can just as easily reproduce inequality as mitigate it.
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Under Abe, the Liberal Democratic Party waged a right-wing culture war and changed the terms of Japanese politics. The opposition will need to learn from his success to coalesce around a popular alternative.
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The tightening of state control over Hong Kong and Xinjiang reveal a consolidation of authority in Xi’s CCP, intent on stifling any signs of nonconformity.
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Belabored co-host Sarah Jaffe talks about her new book, Work Won’t Love You Back.
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Rather than bypassing the problem of power by putting our faith in MMT’s printing press, we need a strategy to rebuild the tax state and move toward economic democracy.
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A long line of critical fiscal theorists has pointed to the limits of financing a politics of emancipation through levies on a regressive economy. We need to heed their warnings today.
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