We speak with Vijay Raghavan, Professor of Law at the Brooklyn Law School, about his recent article, “The Radical Potential of Consumer Financial Protection,” published in Boston College Law Review in April 2025. Raghavan builds on the work of constitutional money...
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Jeremy Corbyn: People have been denied an alternative
In a wide-ranging interview with Tribune, Jeremy Corbyn discusses his hopes for the new Left party, the potential for coalition building, and his determination to overcome sectarianism on the way to forging a truly democratic form of modern socialism.
Observations from the West Bank: the Jewish Supremacy monster cannot be contained
Two human rights practitioners used to have hope that Israel could be reformed, but no longer. "Today it is one solid mass of distilled evil," writes human rights lawyer Michael Sfard.
Trump and Democrats fuel the Washington DC crime panic
Donald Trump’s takeover of the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department is not merely a result of his racist and authoritarian tendencies, nor is it new. It is part and parcel of a history of militarized policing against Black people and a bipartisan consensus...
India’s reckoning with Trump’s tariffs
There are two reasons for the U.S. tariffs imposed on India: first, India’s refusal to open its agricultural market to U.S. imports; second, India’s refusal to stop purchasing oil from Russia.
Post Keynesian economics today: would Antonio Gramsci be cancelled?
This is a time when we need more openness, not less. A policy that would ban Antonio Gramsci should not be approved.
Venezuela slams U.S. bounty increase on Maduro as allies condemn pathetic aggression
The U.S. Departments of Justice and State announced the increased bounty—from $25 million to $50 million—for information leading to Maduro’s arrest.
Mamdani’s Judeo-Bolshevik threat
ON ISLAMOPHOBIA, DEMOGRAPHICS, AND RADICAL POLITICS.
Going off script: Our front row view of another Kerala story
The state is far from perfect. But it offers a glimpse of what the world could look like when human well-being is prioritised in everyday life.
Inequality worsens Planetary heating
The accumulation of still growing greenhouse gas emissions in an increasingly unequal world is accelerating planetary heating. This is worsening inequalities, both nationally and internationally.
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Introduction Of all the issues currently facing humanity, there is none so existential as the climate and environmental crisis. Its effects are everywhere; drought, flooding, crop failure, soil erosion, forest despoliation, food and water shortages, economic...
Trump’s tariffs against Latin America: Part of a global battle
Trump’s tariffs intend to keep it that way, while Latin America’s orientation towards Asia, China and the BRICS is correctly pushing in the opposite direction: to a fairer, multipolar world.