Winning the Battle, Not the War
Pink Tide populism was built in the context of two decades of deindustrialization and industrial fragmentation. But we need a socialist left that can reverse those very trends.
67 Articles by: Jonah Walters
Jonah Walters is a doctoral candidate in geography at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
What Bernie Brings to the Table
This Democratic primary could change everything. New York magazine columnist Eric Levitz discusses how Bernie Sanders’s class-struggle candidacy could realign US politics and what roadblocks it will run into.
An Empire of Patrolmen
During the Cold War, the US trained cops in more than fifty countries to suppress dissent. This “police professionalization” helped produce death squads in countries like El Salvador and mass incarceration in the United States.
Battling Neoliberalism Through Anti-Autocracy in Nicaragua
The anti-autocracy movement in Nicaragua is a reflection of broader popular struggles against neoliberal policies across Central America. It shouldn’t be dismissed or reduced to its most reactionary elements.
War Is a Racket
The life and times of Smedley Butler.
Camera in One Hand, Gun in the Other
With its celebration of mercs rampaging through Africa, no healthy society could produce a magazine like Soldier of Fortune.
We Need to Get the US Army Out of High Schools
A society that teaches violence is a violent society. We need to get the JROTC out of our schools.
Puerto Rican Politics Will Never Be the Same
Disgraced Puerto Rican governor Ricardo Rosselló is slated to leave office today. It’s a victory for the mass protest movement — but as elites struggle to name a successor, the colony’s future remains uncertain.
Going Up the Country
The New Left and the “back-to-the-land” movement.
The House That Debt Built
Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena is a monument to the subprime mortgage crisis and the companies that caused it.
The Newsies Were Real
Picket lines once made the best playgrounds around.
The Beyoncé Treatment
No mother should be forced to give birth in conditions Beyoncé wouldn’t accept for herself.
Before the World Arrived
Just ten days before the 1968 Olympics, hundreds of protesters lay dead in a Mexico City square.
Obamacare and the End of Culture
Enjoy the soothing sounds of our national id.
How to Kill a Bill
Inside the secret war of America’s most effective assassins: Harry and Louise.
Talkin’ For-Profit Medicine Blues
A century of hard living and hospital bills in American song.
Choose Your Own Adventure
When your God that fails is Pol Pot.
Ending the Opioid Crisis
Trump finally declared mass opioid addiction a national emergency. But he won’t take on big pharma and the social roots of the crisis.
Beware Your Local Food Cooperative
Produce is serious business. A history of the co-op wars.
A Hero and a Priest
Remembering Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, the Sandinista priest and one-time United Nations General Assembly president who died earlier this month.