History shows us that when authoritarianism rears its head, whether it takes root depends on the labor movement’s response. That’s why unions must be at the center of the burgeoning antiauthoritarian movement that’s on display...
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In his epic new history of the Western Hemisphere, America, América, Greg Grandin recounts how the great Cuban revolutionary José Marti encountered Thucydides’ account of Athens’s victory in the Peloponnesian War. Athens had laid siege...
In 1950, sociologist David Riesman’s The Lonely Crowd posited that a strong sense of conformity in America was replacing genuine human connection with a performance of group belonging. Avid consumers of mass culture, we had...
Two Chinese Communist Party intelligence officers sit across from each other in a windowless room, incense smoke curling up from a ceramic vessel. They’re discussing their newest asset, US congressional candidate Jay Chen. “This Jay...
The Trump administration’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued guidance yesterday prohibiting states from wiping medical debt from consumers’ credit ratings. The guidance deems that federal law overrides any state law that limits the inclusion...
Scholars have touted our age as the “Asian century,” with the emergence of two Asian giants in the world economic order, China and India. Over the last three decades, they have been classified as the...
Mutual recriminations abound between those who think now is the time for Democrats to focus on rebuilding trust with working-class voters to put the party in the most advantageous electoral position for 2026, and those...
Ireland’s presidential election was a resounding victory for the Left. Catherine Connolly, a left-wing independent backed by parties representing every shade of Irish left politics, from pale pink and light green to deep red, won...
The US military is a behemoth that covers nearly the entirety of the planet, and the extent of the damage it is doing to the environment is difficult to comprehend. The military emits more carbon...
As All Hallows’ Eve approaches, more than 1,300 Spirit Halloween stores have temporarily opened their doors across the United States and Canada, bringing seasonal life back to empty big-box locations abandoned in the retail apocalypse. By moving into...
David Garland In a way, this is the guts of the book. First, the story I’m telling is about political economy, not just the welfare state. A major part of the story is about how...
American democracy is on the ropes. Donald Trump and his billionaire backers are doing everything possible to transform our country into an authoritarian state like Hungary or Russia, where the trappings of institutional democracy mask...
