What We’re Reading

Matthew Desmond

Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not.

Climate Summit Co-Chair Michael Bloomberg Backs Fracking and Invests in Fossil Fuels

Eyes on the Ties

We won’t save the Earth with a better kind of disposable coffee cup

Interview with Francis Boyle

Democrats are engaging in ‘Kabuki Theater’ in the Kavanaugh hearings

The Real News Network

Alex Press & Micah Uetricht

Unions are dying and American workers are in trouble — but they're also fighting back

Seattle teachers poised to strike draw solidarity from their brothers and sisters in Puerto Rico

The Progressive

Interview with Angela Davis

Aretha Franklin offered to post bail for me, saying “Black people will be free”

Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson

The enemy between us: how inequality erodes our mental health

Climate change in the Anthropocene: An unstoppable drive to Hothouse Earth?

Climate & Capitalism

Meagan Day & Bhaskar Sunkara

Why America needs Medicare for All

David Gilchrist

When the far right targets books, it should ring alarm bells for us all

When will capitalism answer for its crimes?

Interview with Dan LaBotz

Dan La Botz on his new book on Trump and the resistance

Richard Silverstein

How Israeli tech firms act as global agents of repression

The utility of the RussiaGate conspiracy

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

Lyle Jeremy Rubin

It’s time for a little perspective on Russia

Current Affairs

Saqib Bhatti & Molly Gott

These are the corporations behind Trump’s Muslim ban

John Bellamy Foster & Brett Clark

The robbery of nature

July-August 2018

Black Americans’ median wealth could disappear in one generation

Why Marx’s Capital still matters