For decades, “common sense” has been a convenient framing for conservative ideas. The label hides a more complicated picture.
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The July 11 protests fused economic and political grievances. A struggle is taking place in Cuba over what happens next.
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Redlining maps document the deep history of institutional racism in the United States. They also reveal how the federal government managed risk for capital—a role that has perpetuated inequality long after the end of explicit discrimination in the housing market.
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The Biden administration announced that it will accelerate plans to relocate Afghans who worked with the U.S. military. Their situation demands the most urgent response possible.
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In Wong Kar Wai’s movies, nostalgia is the characters’ constant state. In 2046, a sense of imminent loss gives the director’s vision an edge of defiance.
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American media blamed the massive collapse of Albanian pyramid schemes in 1997 on greedy small-time investors unschooled in the free market. It could never happen here.
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If the Biden administration were serious about helping workers to build power, it would push back against the Republican governors who are ending pandemic unemployment programs early.
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What is happening in Sheikh Jarrah lies at the heart of the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
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McDade and Jackson’s tragically intertwined lives tell the story of a society that feeds on and maintains oppression through punishment, violence, and isolation. They also show us a way out.
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A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin knew the fate of the civil rights and labor movements were intertwined. The same is true today.
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Much of what has rendered India a disaster zone is the direct result of Modi’s policies. Yet even before Modi, India had deemphasized the importance of investing in public health and vaccine production infrastructure.
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The UK Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Uber drivers, declaring them workers and not independent contractors. But to beat the platform capitalists, it is urgent that we start to treat digital rights as worker rights.
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U.S. representatives have introduced two bills that would finally end Puerto Rico’s subordinate Commonwealth status. But continued colonial rule may be the only option Congress seriously considers.
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An interview with Kate Aronoff about her new book Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet—And How We Fight Back.
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In Montceau-les-Mines, a French town once dependent on coal mining, there was no just transition from fossil fuels. Once a left-leaning industrial hub, Montceau today is an open field for the far right.
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Wellness courts provide an example of how some tribal governments are using indigenous sovereignty to build a community-based justice system, rooted in support and trust rather than punishment.
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Lessons from the Bessemer defeat.
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Many of today’s organizers look to the long history of party realignment for strategic orientation. Could they drive a reordering of American politics?
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An interview with Jillian C. York, the author of Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech under Surveillance Capitalism.
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By failing to assemble a coalitional politics that went beyond the ideology and logic of security, Cold War liberals became unwitting participants in liberalism’s decline.
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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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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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