Historically low levels of inflation and a defeated labor movement made the era of central bank independence possible. But the 2008 crash repoliticized the institution. Donald Trump’s attack on Lisa Cook is a backlash that has been brewing ever since. Donald Trump's...
Community organizer Fred Ross Sr, was a key figure in progressive activism during the 20th century. He started in the 1930s farmworker camps that inspired John Steinbeck’s novels and went on to pioneer methodical tactics that transformed American organizing. Fred Ross...
On Sunday, the migrant rescue ship Ocean Viking was attacked by armed men in international waters. The assailants: the Libyan Coast Guard, sponsored by the European Union to police the Mediterranean. An SAR team rescues a boat carrying 130 migrants that departed from...
NATO members across Europe have embraced Donald Trump’s call to spend 5 percent of GDP on defense. Many social democrats argue that this shouldn’t come at the cost of welfare cuts, but they refuse to challenge the military spending plan itself. Frans Timmermans’s...
School privatization efforts are making dangerous advances in states like Florida and Arizona. Neoliberal education reforms that have degraded public schools, from high-stakes testing to corporatized visions of education, are in part to blame. The education reform...
Self-described Leninist Steve Bannon recognized that online platforms and movement tactics can be turned into political weapons. His success shows how tactics developed for solidarity can be twisted into resentment. While the Left organized deliberative meetings,...
Corporate media has routinely downplayed the role of corporate profiteering in driving inflation, often citing industry talking points or providing no explanation at all for crippling inflation over the past few years. A new study found that corporate media has often...
New York City socialists have to figure out how to scale up quickly with a potential Zohran Mamdani mayoralty on the horizon. The socialist values underpinning the Mamdani campaign’s narrative and platform will require mass-movement tactics to effectively communicate...
Population decline is not just about human extinction. Before it ends, human civilization will grow increasingly unpleasant — and communal ideals associated with left-wing politics will become increasingly difficult to sustain. The population-decline scenario is one...
Donald Trump’s tariffs amount to a stealth tax on the middle and working classes, wrapped in the language of sovereignty. In practice, it’s upward redistribution and corporate price-gouging, fueling inequality that corrodes stability and erodes democracy. Funneling...
Socialists accept that some degree of inequality may be inevitable in a complex society. But there’s one kind of inequality that’s intolerable: the kind where resources are allocated according to factors that individuals can’t control. Marc Zuckerberg's yacht...
The rise of the far right in France has gone hand in hand with the growth of racist, authoritarian tendencies among self-styled centrists like Emmanuel Macron. The only way to beat back the fascist threat is by confronting those tendencies head-on. Macronism has...