We must act to make the commodification of our lives and opinions unprofitable.

In this episode of the Laura Flanders Show, author and activist Naomi Klein discusses her new book, “On Fire,” in whic...

Paradoxically, the FBI-friendly The Report is ultimately a more historically accurate, “revisionist” film than the slick, serious Zero Dark Thirty.

This year marks a century since the First Red Scare, which decimated the ranks of the US left. One of the worst episodes was the Centralia incident — where a reactionary mob tortured and killed a group of IWW members to drive them out of the Washington town.

In the first part of an ongoing series covering Bernie Sanders’ time as mayor of Burlington, we look at Sanders’ years in the wilderness and the circumstances that made his rise possible.

It is often presumed that intellectuals have little or no political power. Perched in a privileged ivory tower, disconnected from the real world, embroiled in meaningless academic debates over specialized ... Read More

I am a Hegelian – but which Hegel am I referring to here? Where am I speaking from? To simplify it to the utmost, the triad that defines my philosophical ... Read More

How to win the 2020 presidential election in an evidence-free zone.

Paul Volcker, who died yesterday, won't be mourned by this publication. As Federal Reserve chair under Reagan and Carter, he destroyed millions of working-class jobs and pushed a radical neoliberal program.

The fantasy world continues.  In the US and Europe, stock market index levels are hitting new all-time highs.  Bond prices are also near all-time highs.  Investment in both stocks and bonds are del…

In 1981, Bernie Sanders achieved the unthinkable — dethroning a deeply entrenched city establishment in Burlington, Vermont, with an upset victory in the city’s mayoral race that no one saw coming. His methods were familiar: a populist, working-class message…

“It’s really interesting, isn’t it, how certain people would want to go to such lengths to smash Marx. Do they really think they’re going to destroy the ideas by destroying the grave? …people feel so afraid of Marx. Is there any other intellectual throughout…

Border Patrol agents, untrained in child welfare, decide that some parents are unfit to stay with their children based on brief interactions in detention.

Reducing or ceasing emissions is no longer enough; we must remove the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere.

Princeton history professor Kevin Kruse discusses the lessons we can take from the impeachments of Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, and Andrew Johnson.

Hear Minsky explain financial fragility in his own words at an event in Colombia, November 1987. Read more about the event in Institute Working Paper No. 917, " Two Harvard Economists on Monetary Economics: Lauchlin Currie and Hyman Minsky on Financial Systems…

We must now ensure that the working class, in all its diversity, is the driving force within our party

From the mid-1960s to the late 2000s, the number of people locked in U.S. prisons and jails, and forced onto parole or probation, increased from less than eight hundred thousand to more than seven…

An increasingly limited US influence in the Middle East is exacerbated by policies that aggravate conflicts and lead other powers to push their agendas.

A new game lets players fight a ridiculous caricature of the Trump regime, but is nevertheless backed by serious politics.