Opinion

A Socialist Case for Curbing Consumption To Stop Climate Change

Combating extractive capitalism is crucial. So is taking the bus.

Dayton Martindale

Democrats Can’t Win By Courting Conservative White Voters

It’s time to follow the lead of Black grassroots organizers.

James Thindwa

Establishment Democrats Lack the Will to Fight the GOP Tax Plan. It’s Time for an Alternative.

To fend off the Republicans' one-sided class war, we must break the corporate hold on the Democratic Party.

Joel Bleifuss

Trump Must Go

We can’t have an out-of-control president with a finger on the button.

Joel Bleifuss

Puerto Rico Is a Symptom of America’s Rotting Democracy

We need to rebuild the island and our government.

Jessica Stites

Heed the Lesson of 1932: Only Left Unity Can Defeat the Racist Right

We have our differences, but we also have the numbers.

Joel Bleifuss

We’ll Beat the Fascists With Ideas, Not Fists

As bad as the far Right is, shutting them down is poor strategy.

Nathan Robinson

Don’t Give Fascism an Inch

To defeat white supremacy, we must confront it directly.

Natasha Lennard

Why I Helped Shut the “Alt-Right” Down

While different situations call for different tactics, sometimes the only option is denying a platform.

Mukund Rathi

Why Toxic Masculinity Hurts Men as Well as Women

Feminists and progressives need to highlight toxic masculinity's poisonous effects on not just the marginalized, but men as well.

Susan J. Douglas

There’s Nothing Okay About Kevin Drum’s “Disgust” For the Homeless

The Mother Jones column is a case study in how liberals insulate themselves from the psychological and material effects of injustice.

Michael Metzger

We Are In the Midst of a Black Power Renaissance

Under Trump, we are seeing a return to collective Black consciousness.

Salim Muwakkil

We Have an Existential Imperative to Resist GOP Death Panels

The casualties of the war on health are real and imminent, not a hyperbolic exaggeration.

Joel Bleifuss

Centrism Is in a Death Spiral: Our Only Hope Is to Let It Perish

While some cling to the Clinton era of the 1990s, the future belongs to a socialism for the 21st century.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

The Senate GOP Healthcare Bill Is Lethal for the Poor and Elderly. The Answer Is Medicare-for-All.

The fight against the Senate's deadly healthcare bill must also include the demand for a single-payer system.

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan

Ossoff’s Loss Is Further Proof: Democrats’ Path to Power Is Through Moving Left, Not Center

The results in Georgia show that the Trump resistance can show up to the polls, but centrism isn’t a strategy to win.

Theo Anderson

If the European Left Doesn’t Step Up to Take on Capitalism, the Right Will Pounce

The left must respond to the economic crisis to defeat the right-wing lurch towards nationalism and racism.

Conn Hallinan

To Save the Revolution, Venzuelans Must Grapple With Chavismo’s Failures

A resurgent Right cannot be allowed to present itself as the only alternative.

Mike Gonzalez