The March on Washington was 59 years ago. It’s popularly remembered as a moderate demonstration where MLK “had a dream” — but in fact, it was the decades-long culmination of a mass, working-class movement against racial and economic injustice. Demonstrators holding...
With a solid premise about working-class vampire hunters, Day Shift had real potential — but there’s no escaping the Netflix curse. Jamie Foxx plays vampire hunter Bud Jablonski in the new action movie Day Shift. (Netflix) Too bad about Day Shift. It’s got a good...
Student debt forgiveness is about to become official US policy by a stroke of Joe Biden’s pen. It’s a good time to remember that, just a few years ago, the idea was denounced as hopelessly utopian, a left-wing pipe dream — and that was the liberals talking. President...
“We won’t wake up, after the lockdown, in a new world,” wrote French novelist Michel Houellebecq in May 2020; “it will be the same world, but a bit worse.” This idea — the same, but worse — sums up Houellebecq’s famous pessimism. Winner of the Prix Goncourt and...
The Inflation Reduction Act was a compromise from the outset, and Senator Kyrsten Sinema made its tax provisions even worse. But the legislation will still raise billions in revenue by creating a fairer tax burden for corporations. President Joe Biden signs the...
No one was ever brought to justice for Mexico's brutal "dirty war," sparked by a police massacre of students in 1968. Now Andrés Manuel López Obrador has launched the first truth commission to address the government's crimes. Student protesters at Tlatelolco Plaza,...
Critics like to paint a picture of debtors as overeducated elites demanding a handout while idly snacking on $15 avocado toasts. But I’ve worked hard and lived modestly, and my debt is still haunting me — even after the White House’s partial cancellation. Around 6...
The sell-off of the Port of Haifa looks like a takeover by corporate interests. Yet the acquisition was led by a close ally of Indian premier Narendra Modi — showing its ties to Israel’s strategy of finding autocratic allies abroad. Indian prime minister Narendra Modi...
Amid rising tensions in the Southeast Asian Sea, both the US and China are courting the Philippines. Most Filipinos would prefer a nonaligned foreign policy — but Manila’s elites keep lining up with the US, further threatening regional peace and stability. Ferdinand...
Past congressional efforts to rein in drug pricing have been undone by Big Pharma’s lobbying of the executive branch. But Democrats seem to have written their recent drug pricing legislation to prevent this possibility. A little-noticed section of the Democrats’ new...
Over 115,000 British postal workers are out on strike today. Why? They’re tired of austerity. Royal Mail workers and CWU members gather during a strike for fair pay on August 26, 2022. (@CWUnews / Twitter) Today we are seeing a tremendous demonstration of unity as...
Right-wingers love to insist that members of Adolf Hitler’s party were socialists. But Nazism’s real economic policies upheld hypercapitalist principles rooted in social Darwinist ideas about the value of human life. They weren’t socialists at all. Adolf Hitler...