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Researchers have published data on corporate pollution and emissions since 2004. Now the data is at risk under Trump.
Parallels between European fascism in the 1930s and Trump’s MAGA vision were on full display this week.
Traditional economics virtually ignores war, even though economic triggers directly contribute to conflicts.
Working class politics must embrace trans rights as the fight for trans rights, women’s rights, and LGBTQ rights are not separate from the fight of...
"The biggest problem with regulated capitalism is that it is simply not sustainable in the long run," said the economist.
Countries across the Global South are experiencing climate, poverty and development crises — all made worse by the unbearable costs of debt...
How can the fall of the admittedly brutal Assad regime create a “historic opportunity” for the Syrian people when the country is now under the...
France’s National Assembly approved a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Wednesday — just three months after he was appointed...
We should raise walls of resistance as much as we can. More important, though, we should demand from the democratic forces to adopt a...
The 2024 UN climate change conference, COP29, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, is now nearing its end and reports are that talks are deadlocked. The two...
Corporate media pundits will not tell you, because it remains at the core of their belief system. But neoliberalism is not just an economic...
The formation of a united front against this far-right realignment is more important and urgent than ever before.
Trump’s rise the result of the ongoing erosion of the political culture in the U.S. under neoliberalism, which has essentially become the...
The recently concluded 2024 BRICS (an acronym for the combined economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit, hosted by...
The legacy of the Russian Revolution obliges, 107 years later, neither celebration nor mourning. Dreams are surely renewable, and a new world is...
An interview with Israeli academic, left-wing activist and resister Idan Landau, who has been jailed three times in military prison for refusing to...
An interview with Lebanon expert Mireille Rebeiz, who says that "I would like to believe that Lebanon will not turn into a second Gaza," but now...
An interview with Norwegian political scientist Glenn Diesen.
Deception, lies and secrecy — including lies to cover secrecy — characterize authoritarian regimes. However, the politics of lying and official...
Why people, and radicals in particular, fail to grasp the reasoning behind this argument is truly mind-boggling.
Research has long established strong links between neoliberal policies and increasing rates of inequality. Susan George, for instance, argued quite...
We need to rebuild the labor movement, and that means not going back to the kind of unions that existed in the postwar era. We need unions with a...
This election is indeed unlike any other in modern history because American voters are so polarized that the threat of civil breakdown is real.
The Federal Reserve hasn’t changed interest rates since July of last year, after 11 hikes between March 2022 and July 2023 in the hope that higher...
In the moral and political struggle to create a future with alternative possibilities, we need to build a united front. Radicalism can co-exist...
As Noam once said, “if you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope.”
Carbon dividends, public investment, and binding carbon-emissions reductions to commensurate reductions of toxic air pollutants from fossil fuels...
Wealth taxation may sound like a good idea, but can it really address, let alone solve, the problem of inequality?
The authoritarian, dystopian settings that the U.S. created in so many places across the world are being reconceived by ultra-conservative forces...