Rotterdam has been forced to walk back the dismantling of a historic bridge to make way for Jeff Bezos’s superyacht. But the incident is a reminder that billionaires’ obscene wealth isn’t just about hoarding resources — it’s also about undermining democracy.
In the beginning of World War I, hundreds of French soldiers were executed by the French army “to set an example” and keep other soldiers in line. Only now, more than a century later, has France’s National Assembly voted for their rehabilitation.
The handpicked successor to a radical Brooklyn political dynasty is challenging an establishment-backed Democratic candidate for state legislature solely on a third-party ballot line, in one of New York’s poorest — and most loyally Democratic — neighborhoods.
The only clear beneficiaries of the current proposal for military aid to Ukraine are US weapons manufacturers and the Pentagon — and both parties seem intent on passing it.
Some segments of the Republican Party have tried concocting a “working-class conservatism” lately. Marco Rubio’s new “Teamwork” bill offers more of the same: it’s a proposal supposedly designed to empower workers that is actually about busting their unions.
Textbook companies are taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to make inroads into online course curricula — and they’re finding increasingly creative and controlling ways to extract full price for course materials from cash-strapped students.
Canada’s leading right-wing news organization has launched a bizarre series that celebrates capitalism. The articles, a collection of misunderstandings and clichés, are proof that our economic system’s defenders are completely out of ideas.
In 2014 Ukraine, great power gamesmanship, righteous anger at a corrupt status quo, and opportunistic far-right extremists toppled the government in the Maidan Revolution. Today’s crisis in Ukraine can’t be understood without understanding Maidan.
In a landslide victory, workers at the largest GM plant in Mexico just voted out their corrupt union, known for employer-friendly “protection contracts,” for an independent one.
Last week, the Bank of England decided to raise interest rates again in an attempt to curb rising inflation. The move will likely increase household debt and unemployment, worsening people’s living conditions.
Insurance companies are leaving homeowners at the mercy of climate catastrophes they helped create.
Human beings are wired for collective, public fun — the kind that a game like Wordle provides. But capitalism, with its relentless drive to privatize, insists instead that entertainments are best experienced as individualized, solitary pursuits.