Former Rep. Billy Long (R-MO), President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), was invited to attend Trump’s inauguration as the guest of a financial services CEO who said Long promised him benefits for his...
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This week marks the 100th birthday of el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz — known to the world as Malcolm X. As we commemorate his legacy, we must delve beyond the caricature of the angry black revolutionary often...
On Friday, one of the world’s foremost sovereign credit rating agencies, Moody’s, announced it was downgrading the United States’ credit rating from its perfect “AAA” rating to “Aa1.” Moody’s had been a holdout among the...
The tech barons strategically placed around Donald Trump at his inauguration on January 20 this year were a who’s who of the oligarchic class. From Jeff Bezos to Mark Zuckerberg and everyone in between, the...
The question of “selling out” was a defining concern of the independent music scene during the 1990s. Some bands who had paid their dues, like R.E.M. and Sonic Youth, saw the act of signing to...
On the afternoon of May 1, according to open-source aircraft tracking, a C-130 Hercules heavy military transport took off from an airbase in Israel. The Hercules flew more than 1,200 miles west into the central...
On the eve of Donald Trump’s first presidential victory, a public opinion poll found that 70 percent of his supporters believed the country had changed for the worse since the 1950s. The New York Times...
In many ways, Donald Trump owes his political career to deindustrialization, the late-twentieth-century process in which multinational corporations eliminated millions of unionized manufacturing jobs in the United States by callously abandoning working-class communities in pursuit...
Review of Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought by Bruno Leipold (Princeton University Press, 2024) For Karl Marx, writing his Instructions for the Delegates of the Provisional General...
The following article is reprinted from Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy, a publication from the Jacobin Foundation. Right now, you can subscribe to the print edition of Catalyst for just $20. For decades, Marxism and the socialist tradition more generally...
More than 70 million Americans receive regular retirement and disability benefits through the Social Security Administration, an essential lifeline for retirees. The agency has been plagued by funding issues for years and now faces new...
In this monthly roundup of “large-unit labor elections,” Benjamin Y. Fong from the Center for Work and Democracy at Arizona State University recaps all National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) elections of 250 or more voters...
