How Stephen Jay Gould Fought the Science Culture Wars

In the 1970s, a crop of books purporting to provide a scientific basis for gender inequality met sharp criticism from figures like Stephen Jay Gould. Decades later, these debates have fallen out of public memory, but right-wing pseudoscience persists

An Open Letter to CNN Regarding Your Fluoride Coverage

When you ignore context, public health suffers.

Doctors Without Politics

What can medical workers do to stop genocide?

Canada as a 51st State?

For a supposed anti-interventionist, it’s odd that Trump is enthusiastically embracing ideas from the era of intense American imperialism.

Mark Solomon – Rest in Power

Mark Ira Solomon – historian, author, teacher, organizer, and socialist – passed away December 19, 2024, at the age of 92.

Should Cities Open Their Own Grocery Stores?

Forty million Americans live in food deserts. Can government-owned grocery stores fix this?

Vermont Faces Legal Challenge From Big Oil

A lawsuit from major fossil fuel groups aims to derail Vermont’s groundbreaking plan to make polluters pay for climate disasters.

Immigrant workers Carry On Despite Deportation Threats

In rural Wisconsin, which voted heavily for Trump, some farmers who support Trump don’t believe he intends to deport their hardworking employees — that his targets are criminals. But Trump made all undocumented immigrants a priority for deportation.

Sewa, Empowering Informal Women Workers Through Co-Ops

Sewa demonstrates how crucial it is that all co-op members – whether professionals or grassroots workers – share the values that the federation represents, and think not just of personal benefits but benefits for the collective and all its members.

Peter Yarrow, Singer With Peter Paul & Mary Dies at 86

The spirit that bound us together so powerfully so many decades ago is still in our in our culture, in our hearts and in our DNA. In the era of the animosities of our time, it’s something that’s so restorative, so confirmational. No, we're not gone.
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tv

Squid Game 2, an Allegory of Capitalism Versus Democracy

Caitlyn Clark Jacobin
In the nail-biting new season of Netflix’s hit series Squid Game, players’ desperate circumstances push them to make fatally risky bets on individual success even when collective action might save them.

books

Balance of Power: Central Banks and the Fate of Democracies

Ivan Radanović LSE Review of Books
Reviewer Radanović calls this book essential reading for understanding why reconnecting central banks to the people is crucial to meet the major challenges of our time, from rising inequality to the climate crisis.

film

‘The Brutalist’ Review: Ambitions Unbound

Manohla Dargis The New York Times
Adrien Brody stars as a talented architect who flees postwar Europe to meet his match in America, a power-hungry industrialist played by Guy Pearce.

food

We Need To Talk About Trader Joe’s

Adam Reiner Taste Cooking
Trader Joe's copying products Behind the bubbly cashiers in Hawaiian shirts, craveable snacks, and bargain-basement prices are questionable business practices that have many food brands crying foul at the company’s blatant and aggressive copycat culture.

poetry

Election Results

Beau Beausoleil
Poet Beau Beausoleil contemplates the horrors which await the American public as a result of the recent election.

Labor

labor

The Video Game Industry Is Unionizing

An interview with Emma Kinema Robin LoBugilo Carolyn Jong Em Geiger Josiah Clark Jacobin
This summer, World of Warcraft and Bethesda Game Studios workers joined the growing number of video game developers organizing with Communications Workers of America. We spoke with some of the workers and organizers who have been unionizing

labor

The Labor Movement Just Notched Two Big Wins

Timothy Noah The New Republic
Photo of the Union President speaking from the podium. Trump’s victory makes it “That much more important to come together, to organize workers, to build real power, because that’s our best offense in this moment." - Jamieson from the Huff Post.

labor

Why Planned Parenthood Workers Revolted Over Gaza

Nicole Froio Yes Magazine
The Palestinian solidarity movement within Planned Parenthood is an example of how working-class power can be used to clarify connections between struggles, even when they seem to be disconnected from our own workplace, geographically or otherwise.

labor

Amazon Strike by the Numbers

Luis Feliz Leon Labor Notes
Amazon workers participated in pickets or short strikes in December. The strikes were in limited locations but a real test of capacity for a growing movement.

Friday nite video

Colonialism Is Back, Baby!

Desi Lydic and Jordan Klepper investigate Trump's push ahead of his inauguration, including making Canada the 51st state, renaming the Gulf of Mexico, and possibly invading Greenland

Rastaman Chant/ Amazing Grace | Playing For Change

A profound medley of Rastaman Chant/Amazing Grace Song Around The World, featuring the incredible talents of John Cruz, Chris Pierce, River Eckert, Tal Ben Ari, Nour Darwish, and many gifted artists from across the globe

H-1B ('16 tons' Song Parody)

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy want cheap labor that they can force to work for whatever pay and hours they choose to set