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The 2026 midterm elections have been the most expensive in history, with more than $11 billion being spent on political ads. While…
The Green New Deal 2.0, like earlier Green New Deals, is a project to abolish the extraction and burning of fossil fuels…
In the past, many Palestinians and Arabs followed Israeli elections closely. They did so not because they entertained illusions that a Zionist…
From coast-to-coast, community organizations are standing up to protect voting rights for the upcoming midterm season and beyond. In response to the…
What does it take to turn a clear diagnosis of capitalism’s violence into a strategy capable of confronting it? In her review…
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the political fallouts in Brazil and Serbia to debunk the…
This is Part Two, of our interview with Chat-GPT 5.6. As with Part One, I did not ask GPT questions based on…
One hundred nine years ago, on the evening of October 25, 1917, the Winter Palace in Petrograd (today’s St Petersburg) was stormed.…
Yesterday for the first time ever I voted early on the first day I could do so in New Jersey. For many…
French teenagers are blockading their schools over missing teachers and crumbling buildings, and the state has answered with riot police: almost 7,000…
On Sunday, September 13th, a crowd of a few dozen organizers and tenants living at 150 and 154 Belmont Ave. swelled outside…
The stadium is empty, but Israel is still in the game. Though any form of isolation of those responsible for genocide is…
This article, the first of two parts, is an interview I conducted of an entity that goes by the initials GPT. Yes,…
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the catastrophic collapse of Emmanuel Macron’s ‘revolutionary centrist’ experiment in…
Reports show activism of many minds, addressing many topics and reaching considerable scale erupting in many places. Education, housing, corruption, jobs, prices,…
Nearly two years ago, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International released in-depth reports documenting that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza. Months later, Israeli human rights groups did…
Early on in this disastrous Trump Presidential term, last February, 2025, I wrote one of these Future Hope columns about the importance…
The Green Party has put the conversation back on track: the problem is not the lack of creative solutions to the Israeli…
In 2008, in the depths of the Great Recession, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for “investment that fights climate change, creates millions…
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect Trump’s Russian diesel deal to expose the collapse of Western…
If you understand that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, why read an article focusing on the viewpoints of people who vehemently…
So far, four sources of definition for society, not one or even two. A human center and institutional boundary, not an economic…
Judge Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize award on October 9 was a rare bit of very good news. “If you clap a…
In his address at the Pnyx in Athens on 7 October, Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered Greece an extravagant compliment: a…
We are living through a period when many people who care about justice and democracy are exhausted, frightened, or unsure what their…
Let’s 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 subplots—past, 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 people’s 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 Trump’s juggernaut or to present an alternative program to meet the…
“Only dangerous fanatics refuse to compromise,” 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…
‘Page Six Hollywood’ recently declared: “War of Open Letters Erupts Between Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine Factions in Hollywood.” 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 “socialism” 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…
