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Spring 2025
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Power Games: How General Electric Exports Privatization
By positioning itself as an expert partner in international climate efforts, GE gains access to developing economies, propping up a system that pushes countries deeper into debt and increases their reliance on unsustainable fuels.
Apocalypse Chow
Introducing a new food column by Arun Gupta.
Know Your Enemy: Legal Trouble
Matt and Sam talk about the lawsuit filed against the podcast and Dissent before turning to the conservative movement’s recent victories at the Supreme Court.
Child Care Is an Organizing Tool
Family-centric programming at worker centers has helped bolster organizing among working mothers—and led to invaluable policy victories.
Defend Dissent
On the Young America’s Foundation’s lawsuit against Dissent and Know Your Enemy.
The Carbon Capture Distraction
The climate left needs to move beyond the question of which technologies are good or bad and focus instead on how we implement them.
Eqbal Ahmad’s Internationalist Vision
For peace advocates in South Asia, Ahmad’s grammar of cooperation provides a much-needed alternative to hypernationalist politics.
Markets Won’t Stop Fossil Fuels
Global climate institutions have embraced the primacy of capital, private firms, and markets—and in so doing have fatally undermined their own efficacy.
The Geopolitics of Industrial Policy
A discussion featuring Yakov Feygin, Daniela Gabor, Ho-fung Hung, Thea Riofrancos, and Quinn Slobodian.
The Damaged Soul of The Mother and the Whore
Jean Eustache’s famous elegy for a left-wing generation is, at its heart, reactionary.
The Coming Public Education Crisis
A fiscal calamity awaits public schools once pandemic-related federal assistance ends.
Structure and Solidarity
Lasting labor victories depend on coordinating diverse strategies and building the relationships to sustain them.
The Future of the Labor-Climate Alliance
Relying on the private sector to decarbonize is a recipe for abandoning workers.
Fighting Fire and Fascism in the American West
Ecological crisis, rural deindustrialization, and real estate speculation have created conditions in which the far right thrives.
