A Rough Night at the Opera
John Adams and Peter Sellars’s Girls of the Golden West is bland, poorly staged liberalism.
New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
At this weekend’s ANC congress, South Africa doesn’t need a new leader, it needs a new economy.
That’s Just Capitalism
Sure, rigged, “crony capitalism” generates enormous inequality. But unrigged capitalism does the same thing.
Ed Lee (1952–2017)
Under Ed Lee, San Francisco was remade into a playground for tech capitalists and real estate developers.
Debating Black Freedom
A look back at Liberator, an anticolonial magazine that operated during a golden age for black radical publications.
The Few Who Won
How should we understand the October Revolution and its tragic aftermath?
The Jerusalem Gambit
The United States recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital as part of its decades-long support of Israeli colonialism.
Capitalism and Freedom
Why do conservatives like capitalism? Because it keeps in place the hierarchies they cherish.
Movable Empire
The story of how America’s imperial quest for labor shaped the hemisphere’s working class.
The “Death Tax” Cargo Cult
With its assault on the estate tax, the GOP is demonstrating that it’s not even under the thumb of the 1 percent, but the 0.2 percent.
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How Washington Hacked Mongolia’s Democracy
When the US intervened in Mongolia’s elections, they did a lot more than leak emails.
Reflections on Anti-Communism
Throughout history, anti-communism has aided the forces of tyranny and reaction — not democracy and freedom.
Whatever Happened to Cool Britannia?
1997 was a cultural watershed for a new, “cool” neoliberalism.
Catastrophe and Colonialism
Hurricane Maria brutally exposed the crisis of Puerto Rico’s colonial status.
Taming the Antislavery Revolution
The Civil War wasn’t just a struggle against the South. It was an ideological battle within the heart of Northern society.
