he idea that we would not address pressing needs, like climate change, child care, and health care because we are concerned about the debt burden is close to crazy. As long as the economy is not near its capacity, there is zero reason not to spend to address these priorities

Source: Informed Comment The government of far right Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu cut off fuel for the sole power plant in…

A recent surge in youth-led climate activism has revived a near decade-long effort to divest New York from the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis

Like Trump in the U.S. and Bolsonaro in Brazil, the Philippine strongman’s utter failure to contain COVID-19 may kneecap his authoritarian ambitions

Medicare for All has won the battle of ideas. Now we have to win the battle against entrenched economic and political power.

Just imagine how Portland could become a beacon of light for the rest of the nation. Imagine if other cities followed in our footsteps. Imagine if We the People began to recognize that our most nationally transformative work could be done locally.

U.S. residents have fewer voting rights today than they did after the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965

After the city council approved $150 million in budget cuts, Texas leaders proposed capping tax revenue for cities that defund police

These young people have their entire lives ahead of them, and  they see a grim future, and that is why they are so fucking angry

Why most of the city’s Black council members shot down a proposal to defund the police

Now What will Washington Do?

China and the U.S. must work together to solve the climate crisis, but the power of the militaries and national security states on both sides is making that impossible

Beset by wars and dysfunctional social and economic systems, the Middle East is too fragile to cope with the coming earthquake

Arizona public school district forced to abandon plans after more than 100 teachers and staff members called in sick

More than 4,300 shipbuilders at the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine struck for seven weeks from June to August in the largest private sector strike in the U.S. this year

The World Bank and IMF continue squeezing poor countries on behalf of commercial lenders, failing to provide the debt cancellations desperately needed.

Across the UK, our rivers are being turned into filthy, dead gutters, at astonishing, heartbreaking speed.

What is freedom? We all speak of it. We all want it. We all celebrate it. But what, really, is it? Not some deep hieroglyphic, academic definition, but what is freedom as we do or don’t live it in our daily lives?

The normalization of relations between the UAE and Israel, facilitated by the U.S., serves to prop up three repressive leaders — Trump, Netanyahu, and bin Zayed — and will cause further harm to Palestinians. It is both a shame and a sham

The entire racial capitalist system that extracts labor and blood from Black lives must go