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Despite what you may have heard, colonial plunder didn’t give rise to capitalism. In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber discusses why the “colonialism-created-capitalism” argument fails, and why Marxism provides a better account of its emergenc

Are We The Universe’s Way of Knowing Itself?

An 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero — and blacklisted writers popularized his story for a new generation in the 1950s TV show.

Shows the Path to Mass Municipal Governance

Here are some of the companies that made DEI changes, in alphabetical order, from Accenture and AT&T to Walmart.

“Workers Over Billionaires” was the slogan on Labor Day. It should be the slogan every day.

What happens when your country's public health system is run by anti-vaccine activists?

Coke's top policymakers have proven to be serial liars devoid of any moral compass who profit bigtime while commiting well-documented crimes.

Poet Suzanne Lummis imagines the inconveniences our Fearless Leader might experience in a less comfortable place than Mar-a-Lago.

“President Trump betrayed workers,” said the head of the AFL-CIO. “Working people delivered a rare bipartisan majority to stop the administration’s unprecedented attacks on our freedoms.”