How To Create a New World Without Elons

The best way to counter our ongoing billionaire coup? We might want to look east for a five-step set of initiatives designed to cut the super rich down to democratic size.

What Did the War in Gaza Reveal About American Judaism?

Peter Beinart on the story of Israel and the moral blind spot of the Jewish diaspora.

The Man Madison Warned Us Against

He authored the Constitution to forestall the rise of a despotic president. We’ll soon see if those safeguards suffice.

The Story You’ve Been Told About Recycling Is a Lie

We might at the very least be honest with ourselves. We ship our waste to the other side of the planet not only because we produce far too much of it but also because we insist on an environment exorcised of our own material footprints.

Global Left Midweek – February 19, 2025

The European takeaway

JD Vance, American Racism, and German Fascism

A sordid history to remember and the horrific prospects of a vice president's embrace of Germany's neo-Nazi party.

Indigenous Activist Leonard Peltier Released Today

Native American activist moves to home imprisonment after Joe Biden commuted sentence at end of presidency

Where Do You Protest Elon Musk? Everywhere.

From Stonewall to Tesla dealerships, protesters are pioneering a form of opposition that doesn't necessarily center on Washington, D.C..

Trump’s Reign of Cruelty

Neoliberalism’s Embrace of Cruelty and Its Assault on Social Bonds

Media Bits and Bytes – February 18, 2025

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Culture

film

28 Anti-Fascist Films

Kurt Stand Stansbury Forum
“What is most important is not what people with unbridled power can impose on us, but rather on what we can do as human beings, as political actors.”

food

Farming in the Dark

Diana Kruzman Ambrook Research
Chemist Feng Jiao and Robert Jinkerson, a specialist in artificial photosynthesis, contend that their system — known as “electro-agriculture” — could convert electricity into chemical energy with four times the efficiency of photosynthesis.

poetry

Waiting

Geneffa Jahan Porter Gulch Review 2024
In Geneffa Jahan's poem "Waiting" the speaker awaits her death as if it were an abusive lover.

books

Upwardly Minded: The Reconstruction Rise of a Black Elite

Lawrence Otis Graham The New York Times
This book is the story of Daniel Murray, the assistant librarian of the Library of Congress from 1881-1922, and of the milieu and fate of the Reconstruction-era African American government workers and officials in Washington, DC.

Labor

labor

If Trump Crushes Federal Workers, We’re All Next

Eric Blanc Nation
Musk’s attacks on federal employees and their unions aren’t just a threat to the specific workers in his current line of fire. They pose an unparalleled danger to every single American.

labor

Trump’s Tariffs Are a Gift to Capital, Not Workers

An interview with Vivek Chibber Jacobin
Donald Trump has championed tariffs as a way to revive American manufacturing. But without a real industrial strategy, Catalyst editor Vivek Chibber argues, they’re little more than a handout to capital.

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