Sheryl Sandberg’s Trickle-Down Feminism Stands Exposed
Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg has been exposed as a corporate thug. But that was implicit in her lean-in philosophy all along.
Macron’s Climate Tax Is a Disaster
The Yellow Vests movement in France is raising up a vital message: blame the fossil-fuel industry and the rich for the ecological crisis, not ordinary people.
What It Means to Be a Marxist
We can only change the world if we understand the actual forces around us. Marxism gives us the tools to do just that.
Against the Repression in Greece
In 2015 the international left invested its hopes in Syriza and its promise of a break with austerity. Today, it must call out the repression of social movements in Greece by Alexis Tsipras’s government.
The People’s Vote Illusion
Pundits are pushing Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party to back a second Brexit referendum. They should be careful what they wish for.
Issue No. 31 Out Now!
- Issue No. 31
- Fall 2018
Breaking Bank
In This Issue
All That Was Solid
Economic historian Adam Tooze on a decade of shattered illusions and the limits of the neoliberal imagination.
Introducing The ABCs of Capitalism
Political organizing is hard — political education shouldn’t have to be. Introducing our ABCs of Capitalism series.
The Public Ownership Solution
The US has a surprisingly large amount of public ownership. But in order for it to truly serve the social good, it must be expanded — and democratized.
Can I Talk to a Manager?
Liberals believe in a society ordered like a restaurant: some eat, some serve, and there is a manager to keep it all going.
Can the Yellow Vests Speak?
France’s elites were quick to condemn the gilets jaunes protesters as stupid and backward. But as novelist Édouard Louis writes, they’re just standing up for their rights.
Mexico in the Era of AMLO
In an inauguration ceremony unlike any other in Mexican history, Andrés Manuel López Obrador called neoliberalism a disaster. Now he must dismantle it.
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51 Percent Losers
The midterms have given the Democratic Party a boost. But their professional-class politics are a cul de sac — we desperately need a political revolution driven by the needs and aspirations of the multiracial working class.
A Political Revolution for Labor
Bernie Sanders’s political revolution can’t be limited to election campaigns — it must be brought into our workplaces and unions too.
Fighting for the Right to Heal
In 2016, 14 health workers tried to help civilians trapped in Turkey’s besieged town of Cizre. Today, Erdogan’s government wants to jail them for this act.
The Fund for Needy Millionaires
Think government benefits all go to the poor? Think again — here are five ways Washington shovels billions in public money to the superrich.
Corporate Science and Designer Babies
For the first time in human history, we have the tools to reprogram life itself. That could be a recipe for dystopia — unless we create a scientific commons that values the public good over private profit.
Africa* Is a Country
*Not the continent with 54 countries
“I love Africa Is a Country, because it is basically the inside of my head.”
— Teju Cole
