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The Island the Left Neglected
If the American left is serious about opposing a reactionary foreign policy that preserves unequal power relations, it should speak up for Taiwan.
Wage Woes
Unemployment is at its lowest since 1969, yet the average American worker remains badly underpaid. Why?
Belabored Podcast #165: Communities Unite for Border Resistance, with Cosecha Movement
We spoke with an immigrants’ rights activist from the Cosecha Movement about conditions at the border.
The Condition of the Working Class in Shenzhen
While gleaming shopping malls dot the urban landscapes of China, selling Nikes, Coach bags, and Prada shoes, a more authoritarian regime is making it harder for workers to organize or protest their low wages and poor working conditions.
“We didn’t expect the amount of chaos”: A Dispatch from the Border
“Traumatized, triggered, shocked.” An immigrants’ rights activist from the Cosecha movement describes the feeling among Central American migrants at the San Diego-Tijuana crossing.
Can We Scale Down Big Tech?
Scandal at Facebook and the Amazon headquarters search charade have prompted renewed calls to break up big tech companies. But we need to go beyond trustbusting to rein in Silicon Valley.
Taking Back the Suburbs
America’s suburbs are no longer the white-picket enclaves of the popular imagination, thanks in large part to the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Yet the pathbreaking law remains far from delivering on its original promise. Can creative new litigation change that?
Graceland
Marilynne Robinson’s latest essay collection What Are We Doing Here? reveals the limits of her restrained metaphysics.
Labour’s Missing Brexit Strategy
By choosing to view Brexit merely as a domestic electoral challenge, Labour risks ignoring it as an immediate, real-world test of the party’s democratic and internationalist commitments.
What Comes After the Blue Wave? A Q&A with David Duhalde
Our Revolution’s political director assesses the left’s midterm achievements and discusses the organization’s plan to build a progressive mass movement and transform the Democratic Party.
Beyond the Market: Housing Alternatives from the Grassroots
What would community-owned, democratically controlled housing actually look like? From California to Germany to Uruguay, popular movements offer an inspiring range of answers.
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