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We are living through a period when many people who care about justice and democracy are exhausted, frightened, or unsure what their…
Letās start with the good news. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has added 61 companies to its…
For the third week in a row, high school students across France are taking to the streets demanding more investment in their…
Can we ever understand history? Can we explain this long running drama, with its countless plots and subplotsāpast, present and future? Or…
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the gathering financial and political storm in France, expose the…
Germany’s far-right AfD just won two state elections in two weeks, and the chancellor’s own party came fifth in one of them.…
In 2009, a political disagreement about organizing and bargaining strategy, involving the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and its second largest healthcare…
Social, economic, ecological, cultural collapse is on many peopleās minds. With the world tilting. With logic seemingly abandoned. How can one make…
A recent New York Times editorial by Tim Wu, a former antitrust adviser for the Biden administration, caught my eye for the criticism it leveled…
When I first saw footage of Gaza doctor Munir al-Bursh and his family kneeling beside the white-shrouded body of his son, surrounded…
France is presently in the throes of nationwide student protests that have turned increasingly violent as the police crack down on students,…
With a few honorable exceptions, Democrats have done little to resist Trumpās juggernaut or to present an alternative program to meet the…
āOnly dangerous fanatics refuse to compromise,ā my mother used to tell me. And so, several decades later, I entered government ready to…
Germany is a country with a long and complex relationship to authoritarianism. It is also of course the country that gave birth…
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the escalating geopolitical tensions between Western powers, Russia, and China,…
Let Me Walk in BeautyO Great Spirit,whose voice I hear in the windsand whose breath gives life to all the world,hear me.I…
This (quite long), article continued the sequence that excerpts from the seven author book Liberating Theory, published forty years ago. This time…
How do we explain the rise and normalization of fascism in Germany and the United States? How important are the upcoming midterm…
In the early 1970s, when many student activists were migrating from campus to industrial jobs to promote working class radicalization, no labor…
Since the beginning of 2026, the United States has maintained an oil blockade on Cuba. Through the capture of president Nicolas Maduro…
āPage Six Hollywoodā recently declared: āWar of Open Letters Erupts Between Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine Factions in Hollywood.ā Only a few years ago,…
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the systemic breakdown of German centrist politics, reveal the uncomfortable…
The Trump administration came perilously close to launching another bombing campaign against Yemen this weekend. According to a September 20 New York…
Think for a moment: what if, in response to all that the Trumpists starting doing after taking office 20 months ago, small…
The word āsocialismā appears steadily more often in steadily more places. Socialism praised, cursed, interred. Socialism past, future, resurrected. What is this…
Germany is now facing the same systemic crisis that its leaders once diagnosed in other European countries, such as Greece, Portugal, and…
I love the name of this conference, United In Radical Solidarity. Solidarity to me is an action of putting into practice, the…
Why pursue gigantic data centers called āHyperscalersā? Presumably, those who seek them believe they are essential for the continued elaboration of ever…
In this AI focussed episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau expose the recent apocalyptic warnings from tech bosses as…
This time, Europe seems serious about holding Israel accountable – or at least that is what 11 European countries, together with Canada,…
After spending millions of dollars redecorating the White House and transforming D.C. monuments, President Trump approved, on September 15, 2026, an additional…
As we have seen throughout this series, the Greentech revolution is transforming energy production and use worldwide. Along with its other advantages,…
This article continues a sequence taken from a book, Liberating Theory, published forty years ago. Its seven co-authors felt that a successful left…
āBecause they want — they think, over two or three cycles, they will elect enough Marxist socialist communists to take over the…
The US government continues to double down, even as its stubbornness costs it dearlyānot only in material terms, but also in geopolitical…
Is revolution a single event? Or is it a process? Perhaps a process made possible by the many gaining certain invaluable insights…
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the political fallout from the AfDās electoral breakthrough in Germany,…
The far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party scored a landslide victory this past Sunday in Germanyās Saxony-Anhalt state election, although it…
The lesson of 9/11 should be that war is not the answer to any of the problems facing the United States. After…
Three days after terrorists killed almost 3,000 people in the United States on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush stood behind…
Isn’t it weird that Labor Day seems increasingly irrelevant. Yes, there may be an editorial in a paper or news outlet, but…
This essay continues an ideology sequence excerpted from the book, Liberating Theory, which myself, Leslie Cagan, Noam Chomsky, Robin Hahnel, Mel King, Lydia…
āLet no one build walls to divide us,Walls of hatred nor walls of stone.Come greet the dawn and stand beside us;Weāll live…
The death of Palestinian artist Sliman Anis Mansour stirred powerful memories. He passed away at Al-Makassed Hospital in occupied East Jerusalem on…
A quarter-century has passed since the terrorist attack that killed almost 3,000 people in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. During…
Residents discuss their opposition to a proposed data center in Lockart, Texas. (Photo: Caldwell / Hays Examiner. May be republished with attribution.)…
Thereās no shortcut to freedom. No, thereās not. Freedom is a constant struggle. Yes it is. But Freedom,the centuries-long fightall over the…
Industrial union building in the 1930s has long been the lodestar for the post-New Deal labor left. If organized labor in the…
Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a resolution sponsored by Republican Study Committee Member Jeff Crank (CO-05) to condemn socialism āin…
Artificial Intelligence (AI), and data centers in particular, are generating an unprecedented resistance ā in Texas they call it the Texas Data…
