Z Friends & Staff Posts
Gaza requires urgent international attention. What is happening in the besieged and devastated Strip at the moment by far exceeds an unfolding…
Tourism workers in Southern California just won a historic battle for the highest minimum wage in the nationāa perfect counterpoint to the…
I was recently surveying my computerās contents and I came across the text of a book I had written over a half…
For those unfamiliar with the intricate machinery of Israeli politics, the unanimous 110-0 vote to dissolve the Knesset on May 20 appears…
More than 15 years ago, the Supreme Court removed limits on corporate political spending in its notorious Citizens United decision, ushering in…
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the delusions surrounding artificial intelligence by examining how its recent…
Not long ago, I received a request for short answers to some questions meant to prod discussion in a reading group about…
President Trump signed the āOne Big Beautiful Billā (OBBBA) into law on July 4, 2025. The law rolls back many parts of…
For those unfamiliar with the intricate machinery of Israeli politics, the unanimous 110-0 vote to dissolve the Knesset on May 20 appears…
Fighting for Our Lives: The Movement for Medicare for All California voters are in the thick of a high-stakes governorās race, in…
Weāre back with another live AMA with Yanis Varoufakis.The floor is yours. From geopolitics and economics to technology, culture, and beyond ā…
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the mainstream economic orthodoxies surrounding Europe’s aggressive tariff strategy against…
Recent years have seen an upsurge in the United States of antisemitism, Islamophobia, and anti-Arab, particularly anti-Palestinian bigotry. The cause is multifaceted. …
On May 23rd, in Poulsbo, WA, hundreds of people joined several dozen pacifist Buddhist monks from the Japanese based Nipponzan Myohoji religious…
President Donald Trump has brazenly engaged in what appears to be insider trading. AĀ bombshell storyĀ published inĀ BloombergĀ on May 14, 2026, revealed that Trump…
Imagine you have considerable background as a progressive or revolutionary activist. You are a good communicator about war and peace, fascist trends,…
I entered the MARTA station at Peachtree Center in Atlanta at 5:45am on a Saturday. I needed to get to the Atlanta/Hartsfield…
US President Donald Trumā’s state visit to China will go down in history as the day the United States finally acknowledged Beijingās…
The notion that the US is an empire in decline has been a recurring theme in international relations literature since the 1980s.…
Heralded with much Trumpian pomp before the event, the May 2026 summit between President Xi Jinping of the Peopleās Republic of China…
Perhaps some things should never be spoken ā for, when they are, they leave us aghast, in a state of horror. Think…
What we today call renewable energy was once Americaās only energy. From the start of European settlement of America to the late…
On the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, we remember that dispossession and exile are not mere footnotes of the past but living,…
Long before the Lone Star State started shifting, in the 1990s, from blue to redāafter a century of Democratic Party dominationāsome working-class…
The video is horrifying, though it is the kind of horror now synonymous with the behavior of Israel, its military, its armed…
The election redistricting decisions made last week by the Virginia Supreme Court, by a 4-3 margin, and the US Supreme Court, by…
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect Keir Starmerās attempts to maintain power in a declining UK…
Germany pioneered Europeās crackdown on Palestine solidarity, and Britain is catching up fast ā proscribing solidarity groups as terrorist organisations, criminalising slogans,…
A review of Scott Kurashige, American Peril:Ā The Violent History of Anti-Asian Racism.Ā Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2026.Ā 341 pps.…
The world is at a precipice, facing existential threats while fascism is on the rise. Yet we lack the proper governance structures to address…
āIt is not enough to be against Donald Trump and MAGA, or against the control of both major parties in the USA…
[This is a transcript of Peter Bohmer’s Economics for Everyone panel discussion, “Stop U.S. Aggression Against Iran and Cuba”, MayĀ 7, 2026, in…
Much of the current discourse on the Middle East remains fixated on the US midterm congressional elections this coming November. This vote,…
Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, the former Finance Minister of Greece, and the author of numerous bestselling books. Varoufakis discusses why Europe…
We activists much less radicals much less revolutionaries face many difficulties. I donāt mean the pain and suffering imposed by grotesque social…
The US Supreme Courtās decision in Louisiana v Callais is the latest and probably most decisive blow to the Voting Rights Act…
While the labour movement often seems at its lowest ebb, what Marx identified as capitalismās main internal contradiction ā the overaccumulation of…
In the previous commentary we examined the impact of the Greentech revolution on the production of energy. But energy production is only…
In the 1960s and 70s, conservative leaders of the AFL-CIO and many national unions viewed militant activists in the civil rights, anti-war,…
America and Israelās aggression in Iran is the latest reminder that violent, expansionist powers will never cease in their desires for warfare…
The European Union is the āchief of all cowards,ā Amnesty International declared in a searing statement issued on April 21. The condemnation…
More than four months after Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin announced that he was breaking his promise to release its autopsy report on the 2024…
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the orthodox view that the newly established U.S. dollar swap…
The re-election of Donald Trump reignited a simmering feud between the progressive and centrist wings of the Democratic Party. While centrists have…
Whatever happened to the āpolycrisisā? A couple of years ago it was the buzzword of the world, describing a concatenation of interacting…
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has announced that he, along with Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Rick Scott R-FL), have introduced a bill targeting what…
For many socialists and revolutionaries for a long time, the āworking classā has been seen as THE revolutionary group. Karl Marx in…
A dangerous right-wing solution to homelessness is to hide the unhoused in out-of-sight detention camps. A 2024 Treasury Department report articulated the leading cause…
Your chance to put Yanis Varoufakis on the spot. Politics, economics, philosophy ā or something completely unexpected. Nothing is off the table.…
A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capitalānetworked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour. And…
