- — Barcelona’s Experiment in Radical Government
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at 5/25/23 10:05amThe activists who took over City Hall have made lasting gains while also confronting the limits of their power in office.- — Ultra Violence
- at 5/23/23 9:11amRachel Maddow’s podcast tells the story of American Nazis in the 1940s. But the era’s real and lasting authoritarian danger came from the spectacular growth of a national security state.
- — Belabored: Reviving the Strike in Britain, with Morag Livingstone and Joe Rollin
- at 5/19/23 1:01pmThe strike is back in Britain but the Conservative government is out to crush the unions. What lessons should labor learn from the 1980s?
- — The Lithium Problem: An Interview with Thea Riofrancos
- at 5/16/23 6:38amCan we rapidly reduce carbon emissions while minimizing the damage caused by resource extraction?
- — The IRA Is an Invitation to Organizers
- at 5/12/23 6:38amThe Inflation Reduction Act presupposes a private sector–led transition. But battles over its implementation could build the political constituencies and expertise needed to take on the fossil fuel industry.
- — The Fight Against Cop City
- at 5/10/23 6:00amThe protests in Atlanta build on a history of organizers challenging prison construction as a force for environmental destruction.
- — A Web of Hidden Wealth
- at 5/8/23 6:41amThe ultra-rich depend on a global network of lawyers, accountants, administrators, and other fixers to protect their wealth from taxation.
- — Structure and Solidarity
- at 5/8/23 6:40amLasting labor victories depend on coordinating diverse strategies and building the relationships to sustain them.
- — Eqbal Ahmad’s Internationalist Vision
- at 5/8/23 6:40amFor peace advocates in South Asia, Ahmad’s grammar of cooperation provides a much-needed alternative to hypernationalist politics.
- — Child Care Is an Organizing Tool
- at 5/8/23 6:40amFamily-centric programming at worker centers has helped bolster organizing among working mothers—and led to invaluable policy victories.
- — Power Games: How General Electric Exports Privatization
- at 5/8/23 6:40amBy positioning itself as an expert partner in international climate efforts, GE gains access to developing economies, propping up a system that pushes countries deeper into debt and increases their reliance on unsustainable fuels.
- — Markets Won’t Stop Fossil Fuels
- at 5/8/23 6:39amGlobal climate institutions have embraced the primacy of capital, private firms, and markets—and in so doing have fatally undermined their own efficacy.
- — The Carbon Capture Distraction
- at 5/8/23 6:39amThe climate left needs to move beyond the question of which technologies are good or bad and focus instead on how we implement them.
- — Fighting Fire and Fascism in the American West
- at 5/8/23 6:39amEcological crisis, rural deindustrialization, and real estate speculation have created conditions in which the far right thrives.
- — Climate Still Changes Everything
- at 5/8/23 6:39amThe U.S. climate movement has largely grown in response to setbacks and defeats. What will it do in the face of an underwhelming victory? Introducing our Spring 2023 issue.
- — Oil and Water
- at 5/8/23 6:39amIn The Rig, the connections between the workplace dangers of oil drilling and the existential peril of climate change come into chilling focus.
- — A Crucial Test for Lula
- at 5/5/23 10:45amThe Landless Workers’ Movement aims to remind the president that its needs remain—and that they are not necessarily compatible with the desires of agribusiness.
- — Belabored: Los Angeles, 1992, Revisited with Tobias Higbie and Kent Wong
- at 5/5/23 9:49amOn working-class Los Angeles before and after the civil unrest of 1992—and how structural inequities continue to shape the citys labor struggles from the classrooms to the docks.
- — Know Your Enemy: TV Writing Today, with Dorothy Fortenberry and Will Arbery
- at 5/5/23 8:27amMatt and Sam talk to writers on Succession and Extrapolations about the WGA strike and how they approach political topics and themes on their shows.
- — The Language of Democracy
- at 5/4/23 9:40amIn Plain Style, Christopher Lasch showed that we can render even the most iconoclastic demands in common speech.
- — A War With No End in Sight
- at 4/28/23 8:41amMore Russians have died in Ukraine than in all wars the country has fought since 1945 combined. But escalating repression and a culture of helpless disengagement have kept support for the war high.
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