Breaking with Capitalist Orthodoxy
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.
Winter 2026
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Belabored Podcast #127: Rebellion in the Streets
Five organizers talk about this year’s May Day, which saw immigrant workers taking to the streets around the country.
Berta Cáceres, Presente!
As tens of thousands flooded Washington, D.C. for the People’s Climate March, they carried the voices of those most at risk for defending the environment: indigenous activists like Berta Cáceres, who was murdered in Honduras last year and whose true killers remain at large.
Kashmir’s New Uprising
Since last July, Indian-occupied Kashmir has been rocked by massive, ongoing protests. The question is: why now?
It Doesn’t Take a Dictator to Smother a Free Press
As the leaders of Hungary and Poland have shown, the right combination of political and financial muscle is enough to control the media.
Duterte Unbound
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.
Brazil on Strike
In the face of a far-reaching austerity package being imposed by an unelected government, more than 1 million Brazilian workers took the streets Friday for the country’s first general strike in decades.
Finding Miss Burma
An excerpt from the new novel Miss Burma.
Can Trump Deliver on Growth?
Trump’s economic strategy amounts to little more than a firm determination to drive an old car, at high speed, into a wall.
How the Ivy League Collaborates with Donald Trump
Top university officials at Columbia and Yale have found in Trump an ally in their longstanding efforts to resist graduate employees’ efforts to unionize.
France, Round One: The Left’s Continuing Dilemma
French voters’ rebellion has not rewarded the left.
Belabored Podcast #126: Voices from the Rust Belt, with Chuck Jones
Trump’s promises notwithstanding, many factory workers in the Rust Belt are just as frustrated after the election as they were before. Sarah Jaffe speaks to three labor organizers in Indiana to understand why.
The Enemy is Us: The Opioid Crisis and the Failure of Politics
In every possible sense, the opioid epidemic—the worst drug crisis in U.S. history—is a creature of our creation.
France: Seeds of a New Green Left?
Amid disenchantment with mainstream politics, tensions between Socialists and Greens, and a string of disappointments from outgoing president François Hollande, activists known as zadistes have taken the defense of the environment into their own hands—and met formidable police repression.
How Tax Policy Created the 1%
From the 1920s to today, American tax policy has evolved to reflect one principle—the investor comes first—with disastrous implications for the rest of us.
