The Exhausted Radiance of Claudine
The 1974 romance Claudine is one of the few true depictions of working-class life in a decade of great films that rarely addressed the topic.
Winter 2025
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Disenfranchised by Debt
Court fines, fees, and restitution payments fund government operations—and hold millions of people in dire financial straits.
The Revolutionary Beethoven
In the year of the great composer’s 250th birthday, we can retune our ears to pick up the subversive and passionately democratic nature of his music.
The Green New Deal’s Public Infrastructure Should Be Funded by the Public
Democrats are starting to take green investment seriously. To move these plans anywhere near a Green New Deal—and avoid ceding power to Wall Street—will require a political mobilization from the bottom up.
What Mrs. America Leaves Out
The 1970s women’s movement included a wave of organizing in the workplace. A new documentary, 9to5, tells the story of a movement.
The Social Gospel on the Great Plains
A century ago, Daniel McCorkle and Robert Lynd advocated for workers in the western mining communities where they lived and preached. Two of their contemporary descendants examine their relationship in struggle against the Rockefeller empire.
Political Spring in Marseille
If the green left is to keep gaining European hearts and minds, its experience governing in cities like Marseille will merit close attention.
The Rise of Telehealth
Telehealth has become a necessity during the pandemic. But its promises to increase access will fall apart if it becomes yet another profit center in a consolidated healthcare system.
All Luck and No Virtue: Sweden’s Coronavirus Response
Sweden bet on both national character and herd immunity, hoping they would complement each other. Months later, the country has little testing and one of the highest rates of cases.
When Polaroid Workers Fought Apartheid
Fifty years ago, a group of Polaroid employees launched the first anti-apartheid boycott of a U.S. corporation. Their activism mirrors the burgeoning organizing efforts of tech workers today.
Tenant Unions for the Future
Calls to rent strike have yet to cohere into a national political movement. But as the economic crisis deepens, tenants’ fates will ultimately be decided by their level of collective organization.
Climate Apartheid Is the Coming Police Violence Crisis
Unless we win serious changes now, the worst is yet to come.
Monetary Myth-Busting: An Interview With Stephanie Kelton
The author of The Deficit Myth on why national debt is not an obstacle to progress—and why the government can afford to fund its priorities.
A Reply to Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Liam Kofi Bright
We have many battles, not one, not even one at a time; they are not necessarily connected, and it is important for reasons of tactics and strategy to recognize the differences among them.
A Response to Michael Walzer
The point of theorizing about racial capitalism is to focus our attention on the broader forms of organization that are constitutive of social life under capitalism, beyond how it organizes work and production.
