Pro-Brexit Sentiment Is Still Strong in a Region That Stands to Lose the Most From It Pro-Brexit Sentiment Is Still Strong in a Region That Stands to Lose the Most From It
In Sunderland, which has borne austerity cuts on top of the ravages of a neoliberal economy, this is one more issue on which people’s voices aren’t being heard.
Nov 6, 2019 / Rachel Shabi
This Is a Horror Story: How Private Equity Vampires Are Killing Everything This Is a Horror Story: How Private Equity Vampires Are Killing Everything
Corporate plundering did not start and will not stop with Deadspin.
Nov 5, 2019 / Kim Kelly
Argentina Can’t Quit Peronismo Argentina Can’t Quit Peronismo
With the election of President Alberto Fernández and VP Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the country is experiencing a populist-nationalist throwback.
Oct 29, 2019 / Luisa Rollenhagen
Coffee Prices Have Collapsed, Threatening the Livelihood of Millions Across the Global South Coffee Prices Have Collapsed, Threatening the Livelihood of Millions Across the Global South
Why aren’t big importers like Starbucks doing something to help the small farmers and workers who are the backbone of their multibillion-dollar businesses?
Oct 25, 2019 / James North
Pulling the Plug on PG&E Pulling the Plug on PG&E
California’s recent blackout shows how desperately we need to replace private utilities with community-controlled, publicly owned, green energy systems.
Oct 15, 2019 / Johanna Bozuwa
Hondurans Are Fighting for a Future Against the US-Supported Dictatorship Hondurans Are Fighting for a Future Against the US-Supported Dictatorship
A new broad-based coalition including unions, professionals, students, feminists, farmers, and opposition parties is forging a sustained campaign of resistance.
Oct 8, 2019 / Laura Carlsen
Richard Holbrooke and the Lost Idealism of a Generation Richard Holbrooke and the Lost Idealism of a Generation
Holbrooke’s public and personal life captures the contradictions of a cohort of liberals that came of age in the 1960s.
Aug 13, 2019 / Books & the Arts / David Klion
Facebook Wants Its Own Currency. That Should Scare Us All. Facebook Wants Its Own Currency. That Should Scare Us All.
Instead of embracing Facebook’s Libra, we should be rallying for a public option for digital currency.
Jul 22, 2019 / Rohan Grey
Jamaica Is Using Bob Marley’s Legacy to Market Austerity Jamaica Is Using Bob Marley’s Legacy to Market Austerity
The reggae icon would be embarrassed by his country’s attempts to rebrand a disastrous ideology.
Jul 2, 2019 / Keston Perry
The Center-Left Wants to Pass the Baton, but What 2020 Candidate Will Take It? The Center-Left Wants to Pass the Baton, but What 2020 Candidate Will Take It?
The right person will understand one crucial thing that Barack Obama did not get.
Apr 8, 2019 / Robert L. Borosage