Opinion

Robert Reich: We’re Living Under the Cruelest Form of Capitalism in the World

Wealth inequality has spiraled out of control. It's time to end this vicious cycle.

Robert Reich

Lost Jobs, Lost Democrats

Neoliberal Democrats are struggling to connect with working-class voters whose communities have lost manufacturing jobs.

Joel Bleifuss

Big Pharma’s Big Lie About Vaccine Patents

Companies say that sharing vaccine recipes wouldn't boost manufacturing soon enough, but now we know that's not true.

Sarah Lazare and Paige Oamek

Moral Panics Work

On the poisonous inability to diagnose bullshit.

Hamilton Nolan

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Grading Biden's Build Back Better Deal

What’s in the latest version of Biden and the Democrats’ massive social spending plan? Not everything progressives wanted, but more than might have been expected under a centrist president.

Max B. Sawicky

Sorry, Biden: There Is No “National Security” Solution to the Climate Crisis

The Biden administration is turning to agencies like the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to shore up climate action.

Sarah Lazare

We Might Get Some Great Tax Policies for Very Dumb Reasons

And that's okay.

Hamilton Nolan

"Support Afghan Women" Must Be More Than a Platitude

When the United States pulled out of Afghanistan, it froze billions of dollars in Afghan assets, grinding many of the country’s most essential operations to a halt and spreading misery. The U.S. government must release those funds.

Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold

Postal Banking Is Finally a Reality in (Some of) the United States

A pilot postal banking program has been implemented in a number of U.S. cities. Next, let’s rapidly expand it—and take it nationwide.

Donald Cohen

The Pentagon Is Still Lying About the Deadly U.S. Drone Program

A wrongly targeted Afghan aid worker and his family are among the latest casualties.

Leonard C. Goodman

Afro-Indigenous People in Honduras Are Being Forcibly Displaced. Washington Is Complicit.

Many would-be migrants, like the Garifuna, would love nothing more than to stay in our homes. It’s Washington that’s making it difficult.

Miriam Miranda

Mourn the Extinct, Fight like Hell for the Living — a Wildlife Reporter’s Plea

The 23 species declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service show us how much we have to lose. They should also motivate us to fight to stop further loss.

John R. Platt

The Budget Reconciliation Fight Isn't Really About Progressives Vs. Moderates

Don’t believe misleading media coverage of the standoff in Congress. Here’s what’s actually going on.

Max B. Sawicky

Afghanistan and Beyond: End U.S. War-Making Everywhere

We need a reinvigorated anti-war movement.

Azadeh Shahshahani

Playing Chicken With Nihilists

How progressives should deal with the incredible Democratic reconciliation debacle.

Hamilton Nolan

Occupy Wall Street Trained a Generation in Class War

How OWS shaped a decade of dramatic protests and why it has run its course.

Arun Gupta

Welcome to the Pyrocene

Our society’s appetite for one kind of burning—fossil fuel combustion—has thrust us into a new Fire Age that is reshaping the Earth.

Stephen Pyne

GDP: A Countdown to Doom

The numbers we use to measure the economy’s recovery from Covid also measure the rate at which we barrel into ecological catastrophe.

Joseph Bullington