Opinion

Military Budget Hike for 2023 is 3,200 Times the NLRB Increase

If a budget reveals what we value, this one should give us pause: extravagant spending for the war machine, scraps for workers.

Amy Livingston and Sarah Lazare

Title 42 Was a Disaster. What’s Next Doesn’t Look Much Better.

The court-ordered termination of Title 42 marks an important step toward restoring access to humanitarian protections at the border. But the Biden administration must do more to fight the program's racist legacy.

Chiraayu Gosrani and Azadeh Shahshahani

Título 42 fue un desastre. Lo que sigue no se ve mucho mejor.

La terminación ordenada por la corte del Título 42 marca un paso importante hacia la restauración del acceso a las protecciones humanitarias en la frontera. Pero la administración de Biden debe hacer más para luchar contra el legado racista del programa.

Azadeh Shahshahani y Chiraayu Gosrani

The Republican Party’s Plan to Fight Inflation Is a Sham

Republicans don’t have a strategy to lower costs for consumers, but they are plotting to slash the safety net.

Max B. Sawicky

Inflation Misinformation

Inflation myths only benefit the rich.

Rick Perlstein

Crypto Predators Wage Class War with a Smile

The cryptocurrency bubble reveals the emperor’s new grift.

Hamilton Nolan

Oil Companies Have Plundered Louisiana's Coast. They Owe Us Reparations.

Native and Black communities suffering the most from coastal damage need reparations for past abuse while we fight for systemic change.

Courtney Naquin

To Make Debt Relief a Reality, We’ll Need to Reform the Supreme Court

The legal hurdles facing Biden’s student loan cancellation plan underscore the need to overhaul our democracy—and make debt relief universal.

Scott Remer

Ranked Choice Voting Won the Midterms

More than 15 million people now have access to ranked elections, and that number is only growing

David Daley

The Greenwashing Scam Behind COP27’s Flop

This year’s UN climate conference offered some reason to celebrate. But the growing clout of the “carbon capture” industry is hindering urgent efforts to clamp down on fossil fuels.

Basav Sen

The “Labor Shortage” Is Being Used as a Pretext to Harm Workers

Lawmakers and bosses are citing a supposed lack of workers as justification for a suite of reactionary policies aimed at further squeezing the working class.

Sarah Lazare

The Left Has a Lot to Celebrate After the Surprising Midterm Results

After the midterm elections, more left-wing insurgents are going to the House, Bernie Sanders has two strong allies in the Senate and progressive ballot measures passed everywhere.

Branko Marcetic

How the Pandemic Changed the Landscape of U.S. Labor Organizing

By banding together to demand justice on the job, essential workers paved the way for a resurgence of labor unrest—and showed how to create a crisis for capitalism.

Jamie K. McCallum

How to Fix the Pathetic Florida Democratic Party

To reverse their dismal midterm election performance, Florida Democrats need to embrace working people, the environment and Unite Here.

Hamilton Nolan

Democrats Must Invest in Young People If They Want to Win

The midterms proved the climate generation is a force to be reckoned with.

Varshini Prakash

The Good Years May Be Over, and Labor Didn't Get Much

The meager returns of Democratic control of the government remind us that true power comes from organizing workers.

Hamilton Nolan

How the Democrats Won and Lost the 2022 Midterms

What the surprising results mean for the electoral Left.

Maurice Mitchell

Lessons From the U.S. Left on Taking Power Vs. Organizing on the Outside

As social movements move beyond the default anarchist sensibility that prevailed through Occupy, they must still reckon with hard questions about bureaucracy and cooptation.

Mark Engler and Paul Engler