The Professional Staff Congress, the faculty and staff union at the City University of New York, is organizing against GOP attacks on higher ed — and fighting what it says are the CUNY administration’s own McCarthyist attacks on pro-Palestine professors. “What’s going...
Donald Trump thinks the US was constrained by “political correctness” in Vietnam and Afghanistan. But those wars were characterized by thorough dehumanization and staggering destruction. What type of war would be politically incorrect enough for Trump? At a speech...
Mainstream economics argues that the tax system is the best tool for reducing economic inequality. In fact, “predistributive” measures like minimum wages and collective bargaining can be equally or more effective. A minimum wage may increase employers’ wage costs, but...
Why aren’t more elected officials turning Donald Trump’s assault on the basic rights of both noncitizens and citizens into a major national scandal? The administration’s aggressive and indiscriminate approach to deportations, coupled with the impunity granted to...
Populist economic policies grounded in the value of work and commonsense notions of fairness may be able to win over constituencies that have abandoned Democrats in recent decades. There’s a problem though: the Democratic brand is trash. Populist economic policies...
Three migrant farmworkers died from heatstroke in Spain this summer. Largely ignored by media, their fate illustrates how the effects of the climate crisis are offloaded on the least visible workers. Fruit pickers in Almonte, Huelva. (Courtesty of Eoghan Gilmartin) On...
In solidarity with the recently imprisoned former president Jair Bolsonaro, Donald Trump levied tariffs of 50 percent on Brazil. He is quickly learning that the US’s influence is weaker than he thought, thanks largely to Brazil’s growing ties with China. Brazilian...
Women say Pfizer has failed to properly warn them about a link between birth control shot Depo-Provera and brain tumors. The pharmaceutical giant is now attempting to use a powerful legal maneuver to try to silence them. According to more than 1,200 lawsuits, Pfizer...
France has just seen the third resignation of a prime minister in less than a year. What is at stake is not merely short-term instability — it is a crisis of the entire Fifth Republic political regime as it enters a new phase in its history. Prime Minister Sébastien...
When the Soviet Union fell, Russians lost their sense of past and future at once. Collective hallucinations flourished in the void. In the United States, our reality is now disintegrating in a similar way. Russians in the 1990s felt themselves without a past or a...
Canada Post once set the standard for secure, middle-class work. Now, as government moves to gut it, postal workers are fighting against a future of gigified delivery jobs, vanishing benefits, and race-to-the-bottom wages. Workers at Canada Post are on strike for the...
The Czech elections handed victory to the Trump-like billionaire Andrej Babiš last weekend. The neoliberal right-wing incumbents did little to curb the high cost of living and again lost to a candidate who promised to do something about it. In the national election on...