Opinion

Pope should know poverty, not pets, keeps people from having kids under capitalism

January 11, 2022 By Lowell B. Denny, III

In saying that having pets over children is selfish and cultural degradation, the Pope’s otherwise advanced, 20th century nuance failed him.

Against a fascist-dominated GOP, democracy needs every ally it can get

January 11, 2022 By John Bachtell

What will it take to defeat the MAGA threat and defend constitutional democracy?

GOP-named Supreme Court majority cements its role as a pro-corporate fiefdom

January 10, 2022 By Mark Gruenberg

Its likely attack on federal protection of workers exposed to coronavirus recalls the anti-New Deal role the Court played in the 1930s.

Piketty says it’s ‘Time for Socialism,’ but has no time for class struggle

January 10, 2022 By John Case

There is no mention of class or strategy in Piketty’s Time for Socialism. There is no mention of enforcing “peaceful co-existence” in his version of internationalism. Imperialism is no longer worth mentioning, even in the midst of...

At 75 years old, neoliberalism has lived long enough

January 7, 2022 By Doug Nicholls

With socialism and social democracy on the rise in the postwar years, the ideologues of the capitalist class dusted off “free market economics” and made it new again.