The Politics of Life and Death
Rising life expectancy has long been seen as proof of capitalism’s success. But it was socialists who insisted on investment in health and well-being.
Rising life expectancy has long been seen as proof of capitalism’s success. But it was socialists who insisted on investment in health and well-being.

In a moment of climate fatalism, ecomodernists are imagining a green urbanism that doesn’t come at the cost of abundance or beauty.

The “Fighting Oligarchy Tour” rallies headlined by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can become something much bigger — if Bernie and AOC direct their rally attendees into sustained organizing efforts against Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Some scientists think we should slow climate change through carbon capture and solar geoengineering. Is that a gamble worth taking?

The world as we know it is a product of globalization — and this era of globalization might be coming to a close.

Born in the seventeenth century, our faith in progress is now at death’s door. Sociologist Göran Therborn traces the idea’s history — and argues that it must be revived.

Donald Trump’s billionaire appointees make his second administration the richest in US history.

The president’s cryptocurrency isn’t doing so hot.

Throughout US history, reactionary forces have used immigration law to silence political speech — just as the Trump administration is trying to do against Mahmoud Khalil and several others.