How The Blood Is Kept From View
Chris Hedges’ book “The Greatest Evil Is War” forces us to look at the darkest and most disturbing images of war, the ones that those who lead us into war would rather we not see.
White-Collar War Crimes and For-Profit Famines
What should be called ‘white-collar crimes’ could kill more people than combat itself in the Russia-Ukraine war.
We Can Have a Public Transit Paradise
We can build effective mass transit. But this requires ending the dominance of the automobile, an inefficient and dangerous method of transit.
How Do We Overcome Capitalism?
Tom Wetzel explains what a planned socialist economy would look like and the strategy we need to make socialism a reality.
Alex Jones Wrote a Book and Somehow I Have Forced Myself to Read It
The professional purveyor of conspiratorial delusions has now spelled his theory out in writing. As usual, it is mostly deranged, albeit sprinkled with the occasional factually accurate statement.
Is There Anyone Worse Than a For-Profit Hospital Operator?
Hospital workers acting as predatory debt collectors is the inevitable result of mixing profit and healthcare.
Manufacturing Nostalgia
An avid collector puts the sports card hobby into focus. The hobby isn’t so much a parallel of the free market as it is the free market emulating itself.
Robin D.G. Kelley on the Importance of Utopian Visions for Social Movements
The Black radical tradition reminds us that leftist struggle is just as much about imagining the world we want to create as critiquing the conditions of our oppression.