Will Amazon disrupt groceries? How did Walmart take over food sales? Is Zohran Mamdani’s public grocery plan too small? Why is the market increasingly polarized between Erewhons and dollar stores? An ex–Whole Foods vice president gives us an industry tour. Walmart is...
Huge bankruptcies for used car firms have exposed Wall Street’s entanglement with the sector. Far from derisking after the Great Recession, banks rebuilt the economy on obscure financial intermediaries that are now sinking. Tricolor Holdings, a large subprime auto...
Last night at a campaign rally, Zohran Mamdani addressed his supporters: “For too long, we have tried not to lose. Now, it is time that we win.” New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks at United Palace on October 13, 2025. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty...
In Russia and occupied Ukraine, many thousands of civilians have been jailed or forcibly disappeared for speaking out against the invasion. The numbers reflect a crackdown on dissent worse than at any point since the 1950s. Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine has led...
France’s new prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, has had a rocky start. Yet as armed forces minister, he has already proved himself where it counts: loyally defending Emmanuel Macron’s austerity plans while pushing for ever higher military spending. Sébastien Lecornu...
Political fearmongering about the effects of immigration on the British economy doesn’t track with reality. Illustration by Jan Robert Dünnweller. Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber only. Click here to subscribe.
In 2018, #AbolishICE was everywhere. Seven years later, the agency is bigger than ever, yet the slogan’s champions are nowhere to be found. Illustration by Benny Douet. Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber only. Click here to...
Some American trade unionists have argued that labor should remain “neutral” on the question of Palestine. In fact, the US labor movement has never been neutral: its union officialdom has a more-than-century-long history of allying with Zionism. President Dwight D....
The insatiable demands of the military industrial complex are a barrier to human flourishing on a livable planet. Increasing military budgets as part of rising great-power competition is a disaster across multiple fronts: for the victims of wars, for an already...
Labor organizing can’t succeed at scale without a supportive legal and political environment, created by majoritarian coalitions that can win reforms, confront corporate power, and prove to skeptical workers that progressive governance delivers. Economic populism...
While lecturing others on democracy and human rights, the United States has let its own system for enforcing basic labor protections collapse. Its failure to protect the rights of workers should be an international scandal. Without judges to hear cases, the NLRB’s...
Central to Karl Marx’s vision of the good society is the idea that people fully flourish only in meeting the needs of others. Karl Marx’s vision of the good society is often dismissed as unrealistic, said to depend on limitless abundance and no need for people to...