No, raising the minimum wage does not hurt US fast-food workers ~finance business Article 1022 words 29 votes
A socialist critique of Kohei Saito’s “start from scratch” degrowth communism ~enviro Article 8476 words 6 votes
Book review - A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism by Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein ~humanities.history Article 1848 words 4 votes
The new movie Fingernails might make you want to rip out your own ~movies reviews science fiction Article 1012 words 8 votes
Led by labor-backed mayor Brandon Johnson, Chicago could become the first big city in the US to open a publicly owned grocery store ~food Article 1049 words 31 votes
The “tragedy of the commons” is a dubious, right-wing concept ~enviro climate change Article 1079 words 47 votes
Israel’s apologists are showing they couldn’t care less about Palestinian lives ~society politics Article 2443 words 30 votes
How universal basic income became the pessimist’s utopia ~finance economics Article 3152 words 46 votes
California hotel workers are on strike because app based staffing agencies punish them for refusing to cross picket lines ~life work Article 2326 words 28 votes
Molly Nilsson wants a world with no billionaires – synthpop icon speaks about the future of creative pursuits in a neoliberal world ~music pop.synth Article 2172 words 3 votes
We can’t save the planet and make ExxonMobil happy ~enviro climate change energy.renewable Article 1187 words 6 votes
The National Conservatism Conference and the shifting priorities of the American Right ~society politics Article 175 words 4 votes
Norway's billionaires spent the election campaign smearing Rødt – but the party kept its focus and secured a historic electoral breakthrough ~society politics Article 1519 words 4 votes
The FBI’s domestic “War on Terror” is an authoritarian power grab ~society politics Article 1712 words 6 votes
In Finland, high-quality free school meals are provided to all children between six and sixteen as a public service – students everywhere deserve the same ~life education Article 1253 words 8 votes
Denmark's socialist left needs to reverse the decline in working-class mobilization – mass-membership parties have been replaced by a professionalized media-political sphere ~society politics Article 2292 words 12 votes
Denmark's “zero asylum” plan means psychological torture for refugees – over the years Danish immigration politics has become increasingly extreme ~society politics Article 2836 words 11 votes
On Marx, Lincoln, slavery and socialism in the years following the Civil War ~humanities.history Article 2688 words 13 votes
When fascism was American; Using religion, anticommunism and xenophobia, "Father" Charles Coughlin popularized fascism in 1930s America, not too unlike Donald Trump today ~humanities.history Article 2795 words 8 votes
The coronavirus crisis has highlighted exploitative global trade regimes ~society politics Article 3457 words 9 votes
Stop trying to shame socialists into voting for Joe Biden: It’s really about performatively denouncing leftists as irresponsible, for the edification of the liberals who are watching ~society politics Article 677 words 19 votes
How to argue with your comrades: it’s easy for socialists to blame our own comrades for our defeats. But those losses are more rooted in the powerful structures we’re up against than our own failures ~society politics Article 1138 words 8 votes
Norway's social-democratic compromise doesn't owe to some eternal national character – it was a product of the revolutionary struggles of the interwar period ~humanities.history Article 2742 words 7 votes
Ronald Reagan’s “October Surprise” plot was real after all ~humanities.history Article 911 words 16 votes
The online left goes to war: Stefan Bertram-Lee was an internet leftist. And then they went to Rojava [Northern Syria / Western Kurdistan] and got a gun ~tech social media Article 4798 words 10 votes
On October 24, 1975 over ninety percent of Icelandic women refused to work – to show how much society depended on women's labor, from farms and factories to the home ~life work Article 2374 words 10 votes
The candidates’ policies on inequality: A no-bullshit guide ~society politics Article 1986 words 5 votes
Stopping climate change will never be “good business” ~enviro climate change Article 1975 words 5 votes
Against 21st century race science: Scientists claim they can solve racial inequalities in health care through genetics. It's a wrongheaded and dangerous approach ~health medicine healthcare Article 1670 words 4 votes
Against advertising: Advertisers thrive on perpetuating a system that is ravaging the planet. We can do without them — and a lot of the junk they’re trying to sell us. ~design advertising Article 1571 words 33 votes
It’s been five years since Seattle’s landmark $15 minimum wage law. It not only helped workers — it raised their expectations about what's possible and what they deserve. ~finance economics Article 926 words 16 votes