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Progressive economic ideas have been on the whole an anathema to the U.S. political establishment and violence against labor militancy has always been...
U.S. billionaires have seen their wealth nearly double since the Trump tax cuts took effect in 2017. In the meantime, the planet is getting hotter and...
Human activity in a profit-driven world divided by nation-states and those who have rights and those who don’t is the primary driver of climate...
Militarized borders — comprising walls, barriers, fences and repressive border policies — have become something of the norm in today’s world,...
C. J. Polychroniou speaks with progressive economist Gerald Epstein about why alternative banking is possible and urgently needed.
US crude oil production reached an all-time production high in 2023 -- the hottest year on record.
Our current banking and financial system has transformed politics in favor of the rich, debilitating democratic institutions, destroying the common...
The fortunes of the five richest men in the world have “shot up by 114 percent since 2020,” according to a January 2024 Oxfam report on global...
Over the past several decades, there have been rapid and fundamental changes in the finance and banking sectors. The banking reforms of the New Deal,...
On January 1, 2024, the minimum wage increased from coast to coast. Indeed, 22 states and more than 40 cities and counties experienced wage increases...
If we are to expect the frustrated and badly battered working-class people to turn their backs on the false promises of the far right and join instead...
The extraction of wealth is a pathology of late capitalism and is defined by the cultural and political processes by which the rich establish...
The outcome of global climate summits has barely changed since the United Nations held the first Conference of the Parties (COP) in Berlin in 1995....
During the last couple of decades, we have been witnessing a resurgence of interest in the thought and work of Karl Marx, author of major...
Global climate summits have rarely produced tangible results. More than anything, they have proven to be nothing less than platforms for verbose empty...
The dramatic victory of the far right provocateur Geert Wilders in the recent Dutch elections is yet another extremely worrisome sign that Europe is...
Immigration has been a touchstone of United States political debates for decades, and several cities claim to be at a “breaking point” as they...
Radical social change does not take place on its own, and surely not without viable solutions to the very problems confronting contemporary capitalist...
Preventing the former president from being reelected should be the primary goal of all progressive forces from this point on.
An interview with C. J. Polychroniou.
Israel’s ground invasion of northern Gaza has in effect begun, following the Israeli military’s announcement on Friday of its plan to “expand”...
Capitalism is a socioeconomic system that depends upon exploitation and generates inequality. In a recently published book titled, The Age of...
The threat of a U.S. government shutdown was averted late last Saturday night after the House passed a 45-day stopgap funding bill, which was then...
Perhaps those who voted for Kasselakis are unfamiliar with U.S. politics and the true color of the Democratic Party, but it is a vision that...
A UN climate report ahead of the upcoming COP28 summit says that governments are failing to cut emissions fast enough for the planet to avoid an...
In the current age of climate emergency, many countries in debt are being forced by Global North elites and institutions to continue to rely on fossil...