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How Will Capitalism End?

How Will Capitalism End? How Will Capitalism End?

Both the origins and the death of our economic system has become an almost intractable riddle for theorists to solve. 

Jan 26, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Luban

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Letters From the February 8/15, 2021, Issue Letters From the February 8/15, 2021, Issue

No hope or change… An open question… It’s time… Fly high, comrade… Higher math…

Jan 26, 2021 / Letters / Our Readers

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Trump Has Left the Building, but the Foundations Are Still in Place Trump Has Left the Building, but the Foundations Are Still in Place

Attention has rightly been paid to his malign influence. But the shift to the right started before his presidency, and promises to continue after it.

Jan 21, 2021 / Rafael Khachaturian

Here’s the Progressive Biden Should Pick to Run America’s Consumer Watchdog

Here’s the Progressive Biden Should Pick to Run America’s Consumer Watchdog Here’s the Progressive Biden Should Pick to Run America’s Consumer Watchdog

President-elect Joe Biden should start rebuilding the CFPB—and thereby gain a powerful weapon in the fight against this economic downturn.

Dec 22, 2020 / no-paywall / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Biden Needs To Find His Version of the Fireside Chat

Biden Needs To Find His Version of the Fireside Chat Biden Needs To Find His Version of the Fireside Chat

President-elect Joe Biden must meet our challenges through deeds. But words also matter.

Dec 8, 2020 / no-paywall / Katrina vanden Heuvel

A truck full of cotton is dropped off next to a ginning depot.

We Need to Think About Xinjiang in Internationalist Terms We Need to Think About Xinjiang in Internationalist Terms

Challenging the right wing’s cold war agenda means highlighting the Uighur re-education camps’ links to counterterrorism and global capital.

Oct 28, 2020 / A. Liu

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Any True Recovery Must Include US Workers Any True Recovery Must Include US Workers

The pandemic has exacerbated the cruel inequities of the US economy.

Oct 27, 2020 / no-paywall / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Trump Paid Less in Taxes Than a Schoolteacher or a Nurse

Trump Paid Less in Taxes Than a Schoolteacher or a Nurse Trump Paid Less in Taxes Than a Schoolteacher or a Nurse

What’s most shocking about the president’s taxes are the things that are legal.

Sep 29, 2020 / no-paywall / Katrina vanden Heuvel

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‘Nobody Gets Left Behind’ ‘Nobody Gets Left Behind’

Mutual aid in practice, on both sides of the screen: a word collage.

Sep 23, 2020 / Something Is Happening Here / A New Orleans Plague Pod

Property May Not Be Theft, but It’s Not NOT Theft

Property May Not Be Theft, but It’s Not NOT Theft Property May Not Be Theft, but It’s Not NOT Theft

As nationwide protests destroy buildings, monuments, and police stations, it’s time to get the facts straight.

Jul 28, 2020 / R.H. Lossin

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