Progressives outside of Europe have long seen the EU as a constructive force in the world and its creature the euro as a symbol of the European social model. To read the new Greek memorandum is to lose those illusions.
Premilla Nadasen joins us to talk about her new book, Household Workers Unite, on the forgotten history of black domestic workers organizing from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Proponents of geoengineering imagine that technology can operate in a political void. It’s a dangerous illusion.
Stories about “creative capitalism” and positive thinking told by people like Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey help to convince people that capitalism is the best, or only possible, way to organize society.
Outside of Cuba, debate around the future of the island hangs on a misleading binary: free-market capitalism or bust. Consistently written out of the picture are Cuba’s democratic socialists—a few of whom I caught up with on a recent trip.
Without strong opposition at home, the “war on terror” will stretch into a third decade, with no plausible sign of a conclusion.
A comprehensive guide to the nuclear agreement with Iran—and why it’s a major advance for global nuclear security.
The women of Black Lives Matter are not bending to the demands of respectability politics. They are carving out space for black women to fight for justice.
One year after the death of Michael Brown, the conditions that made Ferguson shorthand for economic, political, and carceral injustice remain unchanged.
What’s happening in Greece? Sarah Leonard, who just returned from a reporting trip to the country, joins us to explain what just happened and what’s next for the working people of Greece and the rest of austerity-ridden Europe.
Seventy years after the bombing of Hiroshima, we still live in the mushroom cloud of secrecy and permanent emergency imposed by nuclear weapons.
Far from being a NIMBY conceit, the anti-fracking movement is central to the global fight against climate change—and for a more just, sustainable economy.
For all his channeling of James Baldwin, Coates seems to have forgotten that black people “can’t afford despair.”
The food industry outsources production for the same reasons as other industries—to pollute and to exploit workers while minimizing resistance from locals and labor.
In Ecuador, to oppose resource extraction is to be an enemy of the state.
