By some measures, the food influencer and wellness economy is worth over $7 trillion. In All Consuming, Ruby Tandoh traces the rise of this industry and asks how food became both a status symbol and a source of fantasy.Food, much like clothing, is a way of signaling...
The rise of Nick Fuentes and the GOP’s radicalization reflects decades of intellectual groundwork and the material decline that pushed a generation toward conspiracy-laden populism.Nick Fuentes is simply a signpost of a shift that began decades earlier, as right-wing...
The demand for Medicare for All went from the center of the discourse to political exile in record time. But the policy's popularity never faded. A new poll finds strong majority support for the neglected idea among Americans across the political spectrum.In a survey...
Errol Schweizer, a former national vice president of grocery at Whole Foods, argues in Jacobin that the private sector is responsible for ever-rising grocery prices and can’t be relied on to fix the problem. Our food system needs a public option.To solve the food...
In recent decades, the American economy has been characterized by rising inequality, shrinking free time, and the growing concentration of economic and political power, increasingly undermining the democratic ideals to which the US is ostensibly committed.For much of...
The US didn’t send a delegation to the COP30 conference in Brazil, reflecting the Trump administration’s nihilistic attitude to the climate crisis. In its absence, the other big industrial powers once again postponed making hard but essential choices.Indigenous...
Leading French automaker Renault is reportedly converting some production sites to make military drones. It’s stirred discontent among car workers in France, who say they didn’t sign up for Europe’s rearmament push.As France’s war mobilization ramps up, more companies...
Govan Mbeki spent more than two decades in prison for his role in the struggle against apartheid. As a leader of South Africa’s Communist movement, he was also an important theorist who creatively applied Marxist ideas to South African society.Govan Mbeki insisted...
The cordial meeting between Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani wasn’t as strange as it looked; both reject the myth of a self-regulating market. The difference is that Trump uses the state to shore up wealth, Mamdani to expand rights and public provision.The Donald...
Mexico City’s “Gen Z” anti-government protest against President Claudia Sheinbaum bears all the hallmarks of an astroturf campaign.Contradictions surrounding the “Gen Z” march in Mexico demonstrates the willing obtuseness of the international corporate press in...
OpenAI has announced that ChatGPT will soon allow erotic features for adult users. The move points toward new and intimate forms of advertising, in which Big Tech shapes human desire and manipulates it for profit.With the new tactic intimate advertising, personal AI...
Young people looking to fight climate change should consider jobs in strategic industries to organize new unions or revitalize old ones and advocate for green, pro-labor policies. The fight for a livable future can’t be won without organized labor.At the core of the...