Politics

These Three Candidates Worked Together to Bring "Sidewalk Socialism" to Their City Council

In spite of India Walton's loss in Buffalo, N.Y., Election Day 2021 still showed promise for socialism on the local level.

Rebecca Burns

The New Inflation Scare Is the Dumbest Thing Since Voodoo Economics

Elites are sounding the alarm over threats of inflation in order to block Biden’s social spending plan. We shouldn’t fall for it.

Max B. Sawicky

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

When Scabs Are a Danger to Public Health

United Metro Energy is risking an environmental catastrophe in Brooklyn as billionaire CEO John Catsimatidis stalls union negotiations.

Halsey Hazzard

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

The Long, Troubling Career of Buffalo's Byron Brown

The career trajectory of Byron Brown is familiar to U.S. cities: a young reformer who took on the city's corrupt establishment—and who soon embodied the very establishment he'd run against.

Branko Marcetic

Shahana Hanif, Socialist Feminist Organizer, Is About to Make History

From the start, the campaign worked to harness the power of an under-tapped activist community of Bangladeshi women—inspiring a new generation of organizers.

Ria Modak

Joe Manchin Is the One with an "Entitlement Mentality"

By refusing to support a massively popular social spending plan, Manchin is showing just how out of step he is with the American public and his own voters—like a modern day Marie Antoinette.

Celine-Marie Pascale

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

The U.S. Finally Found a Way to Reduce Child Poverty. Why Are Some Democrats Opposed?

While the expanded child tax credit has been a win-win for families and the economy, conservative Democrats in Congress are still finding ways to undermine it.

Sonali Kolhatkar

Minneapolis Is About to Vote on Whether to Dismantle the Police

Will the city at the center of last summer's racial justice protests decide to remake public safety? We'll soon find out.

Logan Carroll

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

Democratic Socialists of America Make a Strategy for the Biden Era

Delegates chart a socialist future at DSA's 2021 virtual convention.

Roger Kerson

Massachusetts May Become First State to Send Money to Low-Income Countries to Deal With Climate Change

A groundbreaking bill would provide funding from U.S. residents to help developing nations respond to the climate crisis.

Rachel M. Cohen

The Filibuster Is Now the Only Thing Standing In the Way of Voting Rights

The new Freedom to Vote Act is backed by the entire Democratic caucus. But with full Republican opposition, passing it will require changing or abolishing the filibuster.

Jessica Corbett

The War on Terror Gave Us Donald Trump

In an interview, Reign of Terror author Spencer Ackerman explains how the brutal legacy of America’s post-9/11 wars has reshaped U.S. society and led to our era of authoritarian demagoguery.

Micah Uetricht