October 2026 Volume 50, Issue 08
October 2026
Labor
The Three True Pillars Of American Democracy
Hamilton Nolan
Viewpoint
Cuba Under Siege
Alberto Toscano
Tech Authoritarian Doomsayers
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Dispatch
Kingston’s Quiet Rent Revolution
Thomas Birmingham
Comics
Welcoming To Burning Ram
Jen Sorensen
Everything Has Protein Now
Gemma Correll
Trump Blows
Peter Kuper
Departments
Go Buy a Record
J. Patrick Patterson
Housing
It’s the Rent, Actually
Rebecca Burns
Housing
It’s the Rent, Actually
How historic housing unaffordability—and resurgent tenant organizing—are reshaping the midterm elections.
Rebecca Burns
Departments
Hot Earth Summer: How AI and Environemntal Injustice Are Shaping the End of This Month
A round-up of this month’s signs we are living in late stage capitalism.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Comics
Welcoming To Burning Ram
Will we one day look back at America's giant pickup trucks as a gauche fad that made our streets uglier, roads deadlier and our world worse?
Jen Sorensen
Departments
Go Buy a Record
“What the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. We love to move around. And we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore.”
J. Patrick Patterson
LaborViewpoint
The Three True Pillars Of American Democracy
It’s no shock that the Right and Big Tech are targeting the same three institutions—if Democrats don’t take action to defend them, we can kiss our democracy goodbye.
Hamilton Nolan
Comics
Everything Has Protein Now
A new comic by Gemma Correll
Gemma Correll
Comics
Trump Blows
A new comic by Peter Kuper.
Peter Kuper
Viewpoint
Cuba Under Siege
Trump’s fuel blockade shows that U.S. imperialism is a policy of extortion and cruelty.
Alberto Toscano
DispatchHousing
Kingston’s Quiet Rent Revolution
Landlords have spent years ignoring a historic rent reduction. Now, tenants are organizing to get their money back.
Thomas Birmingham
Viewpoint
Tech Authoritarian Doomsayers
The Silicon Valley hyper-rich elite are aiming to undo democracy—and modern society—for their own profit. The only problem? There are far more of us than them.
Miles Kampf-Lassin