A Day Without Care

What does it mean to strike when “production” isn’t the production of widgets, but care for children, the ill, disabled, or elderly?

A Dishonest Umpire

Two-state proponents argue that comprehensive peace is only possible with deeper American involvement in the process. They couldn’t be more wrong.

Against the Law

By organizing based on international law, the struggle for Palestinian liberation has been transformed into a question of rights.

Back to No Future

What use is playing the long game when the arc of the universe feels so frighteningly short?

Curriculum for a New American Century

What would a national core curriculum to prepare students for work in the Age of Service look like?

Fellow Travelers

It’s impossible to deny that institutionally the socialist left is in disarray.

Honduran Labyrinth

In a leftward-moving region, the iron fist of Honduras’ Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo makes him Obama’s sort of “democrat.”

How Does the Subaltern Speak?

Postcolonial theory discounts the enduring value of Enlightenment universalism at its own peril.

Imported From Detroit

Behind American auto’s latest PR campaign lies a bleak economic reality.

Life and Death Squads in the World’s Homicide Capital

In a society ravaged by crime, radical “law-and-order” forces end up being at the root of the problem.

Palestine and the Left

The Left has a checkered history when it comes to Palestine.

The Industrial Classroom

In resisting standardized testing, today’s teachers are part of a rich tradition of struggle against dehumanization in the workplace.

The Last Lost Cause

Was the mid-century dominance of southern Democrats essential to the defeat of Hitler and the triumph of American democracy?

The Oslo Illusion

The Oslo Accords weren’t a failure for Israel — they served as a fig leaf to consolidate and deepen its control over Palestinian life.

The Problem of Sex

Without radical change, disquiet finds other outlets. Dystopic visions have replaced Shulamith Firestone and Adrienne Rich’s utopian ones.

The Rise of the Machines

Automation isn’t freeing us from work — it’s keeping us under capitalist control.

The Strike That Didn’t Change New York

The Chicago teachers’ strike was a victory for workers around the country. But how do we move from homegrown resistance to a national movement that could ignite a shift in public policy?

They Shoot Oscars, Don’t They?

The Oscar ceremony has finally acquired an ideal twenty-first century host in the smirking, tap-dancing, bland-faced Seth MacFarlane.

Truth Told Through Lies

Zero Dark Thirty is a film that didn’t need to be made — it strives for realism, but ends up rehashing Bush-era tropes about the ‘war on terror.’

When the Union’s the Boss

While some level of personal sacrifice on the part of union organizers is inevitable, that can’t justify rendering them powerless over their own workplace conditions.

Whores’ Glory

The reaction to a new film about sex workers tells us more about liberal reviewers than the workers themselves.