The adaptation framework has been used to privatize public services, extract resources, and muster new reserve armies of labor. People, not capital, should determine how to reconfigure their lives in the face of climate change.
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What the fall of Roe means for workers.
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While David Attenborough’s work rarely gives center stage to climate change, his project has always been to shift how humans relate to nature.
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An interview with Senator Bernie Sanders’ foreign policy advisor Matt Duss.
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We must understand Russia’s invasion of Ukraine not to justify it, but to better find a resolution to the conflict.
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Taxes demonstrate the legitimacy of democratic control of the economy. This is what conservatives cannot accept—and what surviving climate change will require.
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The politics of the 2010s and 2020s are about who the people are and what it means for them to matter.
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Today’s privilege politics is preoccupied with calculating the relative degrees of social advantage among people who share the same broad goals.
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A new book on Claude McKay is part of an effort to place the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance within the Black radical tradition.
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In many accounts of the New York intellectuals, the prolific critic Harold Rosenberg seemed to fall through the cracks. Debra Bricker Balken’s biography reclaims him for the pantheon.
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Conservative intellectuals helped bridge the gap between the religious right and the institutional Republican Party in order to end the right to abortion.
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Federal housing policies contributed to the segregation of American cities in the twentieth century. But it was private interests that led the way.
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An interview with Ben Tarnoff, the author of Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future.
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Donna Jo Marks, Carlos Perez, and Jessica Wender-Shubow join Belabored for a live discussion about the politics of time spent at work.
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If the former Brazilian president returns to office this fall, the countries with the largest economies in the region will all be governed by left-wing leaders for the first time in history.
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Matt and Sam dig into the origins of the Christian right, its eventual embrace of anti-abortion politics, and how it joined forces with the GOP.
As much as organizers might wish for strategic unity, movements are diverse and messy formations that involve both inside and outside politics.
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If there’s a lesson to be derived from Gary Dorrien’s account of American socialism, it’s that the movement’s open participation in and with the broad democratic left benefits the socialist cause.
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Ahead of this month’s parliamentary elections, the French left has reemerged as the primary opposition to the president.
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A conversation with Ilya Budraitskis on how the invasion of Ukraine has transformed Russian society.
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Eric Li, a Western-educated venture capitalist, now plays an important role in the media ecosystem of state-aligned nationalism.
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Workers at a division of games conglomerate Activision Blizzard shocked the industry by becoming one of the first collective bargaining units in U.S. gaming.
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Two recent memoirs by writers born under communism in Eastern Europe reflect on ideas central to left: cosmopolitanism and socialism.
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Uyghur intellectual Ilham Tohti has been incarcerated for “ethnic separatism” since 2014. New translations of his work offer a primary source for understanding the material conditions at the heart of the Xinjiang emergency.
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Soul City was a boondoggle—not a story of lost or forgotten roads tragically not taken.
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American leftists need an internationalist vision that universally and effectively joins anti-imperial and anti-authoritarian ethics.
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Organizers of unionization efforts at Amazon, Starbucks, and the New York Times discuss how their experiences as women shape their work.
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Anti-China politics are providing cover for xenophobic and anti-democratic forces in the United States.
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Six short pieces on conflict between China and the United States, from Tobita Chow, Patrick Iber, Yangyang Cheng, Brian Hioe, Rebecca E. Karl, and Ted Fertik.
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Commemorations in Derry were a reminder that all of the issues at the heart of the Irish struggle for freedom against the British state remain very much alive.
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