An American Version of Class Struggle

Revisiting the Great Upheaval and the First Gilded Age

The Rebirth of Family Capitalism or How the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Sam Walton, Bill Gates, and Other Billionaires Are Undermining America

Bill de Blasio, the newly elected Mayor of New York City, is, at least for now, a populist hero of our times

In 2007, a financial firestorm ravaged Wall Street and the rest of the country. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy obliterated a substantial chunk…

[This essay will appear in the next issue of Jacobin. It is posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of that magazine.] Shakespeare’s…

“Debtpocalypse” looms. Depending on who wins out in Washington, we’re told, we will either free fall over the fiscal cliff or take a…

Sweatshop labor is back with a vengeance. It can be found across broad stretches of the American economy and around the world.…

In 1729, when Ireland had fallen into a state of utter destitution at the hands of its British landlords, Jonathan Swift published…

Occupy Wall Street, the ongoing demonstration-cum-sleep-in that began a month ago not far from the New York Stock Exchange and has since…