Booked: The Ideology of Cheap Stuff
What do Black Friday, chicken nuggets, and Christopher Columbus tell us about the history of capitalism? We ask Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore, authors of the new book A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things.
Spring 2025
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The Economy During Wartime
During the Second World War, the United States had a centrally planned economy—and the most rapid economic growth in U.S. history. What lessons can we take from the war economy today?
Belabored Podcast #140: Resisting the Taxpocalypse
Protests have been going on around the country over the Republican tax bill. We’re joined by some of the organizers.
A Day Out and a Union: Lebanon’s Domestic Workers Organize
In a country of 6 million, there are now 250,000 migrant domestic workers laboring under the oppressive kafala system. Can a new union help transform conditions not just in Lebanon, but across the Middle East?
When Affordable Housing Meets Free-Market Fantasy
Policy wonks left and right have sought to blame the U.S. housing crisis on local zoning regulations. But the evidence tells a different story.
A Short History of American Empire
Stephen Kinzer is one of the few mainstream voices reminding Americans of our imperial identity. In The True Flag, he takes us back to where he thinks it all began—1898, when the U.S. political class pushed off on the quest for global domination.
The Politics of Comparison
Chris Hayes’s A Colony in a Nation seeks to elevate the Movement for Black Lives by placing it on a par with the American Revolution, but his analysis carries troubling implications.
Belabored Podcast #139: Fighting Harassment on the Farm
We talk with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers about organizing to fight sexual harassment of farm workers.
Why Environmentalism Needs Class Politics
In the early 1990s, pathbreaking activist Judi Bari sought to ally forest workers and environmentalists against predatory Wall Street investors. What can we learn from her story today?
The first in a three-part series from Hot & Bothered and our friends at Cited.
Gilt Trip
How the “Boston Brahmins” of the late nineteenth century laid the foundations for modern American capitalism.
When Democracy Isn’t Popular
Trump’s admiration for despots is by now well known. But why do a majority of Filipinos still support President Rodrigo Duterte—even as they fear someone close to them will be killed in his drug war?
Peace on Paper
Division still rules politics in Northern Ireland. But some organizers are working to reach across the walls.
How to Fight White Backlash
What three seminal books by black intellectuals, all published in 1967, can teach us about fighting racism in the Trump era.
Renewables Alone Won’t Save Us
We need to get off fossil fuels as quickly as possible. But we can’t do it without drastically cutting energy consumption for the global rich.
What Lenin’s Critics Got Right
No regime identifying with Bolshevism has led to anything that can be called “liberation,” as early left-wing critics like Julius Martov and Rosa Luxemburg foresaw.
