Coal embodies capitalism’s most telling paradox: that the most lucrative industries are often the most dangerous. And from the days of slavery to the present, corporations have found ways to profit from the resulting deaths.
Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake shows the cruelties of the UK’s benefits system, but fails to challenge the idea that benefits should only go to the “deserving” poor.
Understanding the “alt-right” means spending less time looking to its leaders for ideological coherence and more on understanding how its base exercises power.
The participation of American physicians and psychologists in torture during the Iraq War era became part of an American version of “malignant normality”—a phenomenon I first attributed to Nazi doctors during the Holocaust.
An uncompromising champion of the labor movement, sharp critic of authoritarianism both left and right, and early proponent of “intersectionality,” French activist and writer Daniel Guérin is an essential companion to today’s debates on the left.
Five poems by the late American writer and activist Grace Paley.
Trump’s successful bid to capture the GOP and defeat the uninspiring Democrat nominee on a populist ticket is part of a longer tradition on the right.
Western capitalism has not been functioning well in recent years. But there is nothing inevitable about its collapse. A more innovative, sustainable, and inclusive economic system is necessary.
In the Philippines, the deaths from President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs keep mounting—as does anger among the families of the victims.
Trump’s economic strategy amounts to little more than a firm determination to drive an old car, at high speed, into a wall.
Since March 2014, the Front National (FN) has governed eleven French municipalities. The photographs here, from a two-year reporting project on three of these FN cities, offer a glimpse of what a France run by the FN might look like.
Long dismissed as utopian, proposals for a universal basic income are now gaining traction on both the right and the left. But UBI’s supporters on the left should proceed with caution.
As long as democratic politics operates through nation-states, it is likely any left program will require some degree of delinking from the global economy.
As Japan’s leadership seeks to restore the country’s right to wage war, a rising student movement is giving the country’s antimilitarist tradition a new life.
George Borjas argues that a protectionist approach towards immigration would be good for American workers. Economists almost universally disagree.
