A Blueprint for Universal Childhood
Children deserve to spend their days in the company of peers, having fun, and discovering the world with the help of loving, well-compensated adults.
Issue No. 30 Out Now!
- Issue No. 30
- Summer 2018
Childhood
In This Issue
It’s Okay to Have Children
Instead of challenging the pressures that capitalism puts on child-rearing, liberals surrender to it.
Today and Forever, Rahm Emanuel Is Garbage
By fighting him tooth and nail for seven years, Chicagoans have established that Rahm Emanuel is garbage. No matter what he does next, that stench isn’t coming off.
Why Canadian Prisoners Are Participating in the US Prison Strike
Much of the US prison system’s distinguishing features — massive racial disparities, the exploitation of prisoners’ labor by private firms, overcrowding, brutality, and much more — are the same in Canada.
Cuomo’s Class-Warrior Act
Andrew Cuomo is battling a major corporation in a bid to get reelected. In the process, he’s accidentally showing the Left how to use the state to battle capital.
The Latest Incarnation of Capitalism
Financialization isn’t a perversion of an otherwise well-functioning system. It’s just capitalism’s latest survival mechanism.
“It Really Comes Down to Empowering the Working Class”
Socialist New York State Senate candidate Julia Salazar on electoral politics, the Democratic Party, and why strikes matter.
The Biggest Trump Scandal So Far
The Trump administration’s response to Hurricane Maria was bungling, insulting, and ultimately murderous. For any other politician, it would have been a career-ending debacle.
Uber’s Big Lie
Uber has been given free rein to violate basic employment laws with impunity. We have to stop them.
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A Lesson Plan for Organized Labor
This Labor Day, with public opinion firmly in favor of unions and teachers racking up victories across the country, the news for the labor movement is actually hopeful.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, In Her Own Words
In an extensive interview, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez discusses the nuts and bolts of her recent victory, why centrist Democrats are vulnerable to left-wing challengers, voter disenfranchisement, the political status of Puerto Rico, and much more.
The Movement Against “Modern Day Slavery”
American prisons are barbaric. The national prisoners’ strike is a righteous response to those horrendous conditions.
Argentina’s Anticapitalist Feminism
A bill to legalize abortion narrowly failed in the Argentinian Senate. But feminist movements have already effected a social revolution in South America.
Muddying the Revolution
We should be honest about the Communist Party of the Philippines’ record, including its assassinations of left-wing activists.
France’s Changing Climate
Last year, French president Emmanuel Macron gave liberalism a hip young face. Now the golden boy’s shine has started to come off.
Africa* Is a Country
*Not the continent with 54 countries
“I love Africa Is a Country, because it is basically the inside of my head.”
— Teju Cole
