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Forget Wealth Tax. We Should Abolish Extreme Wealth Altogether
Economic inequality is the scourge of the 21st century. The rich are getting richer and faster than any other time since the onset of neoliberalism, which calls for “free-market” capitalism, regressive...
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10 Principles for Perpetual Peace in the 21st Century
The United Nations-based structures are fragile and in need of an urgent upgrade; we should consider this one at the U.N. Summit of the Future in September.Next year will mark the 230th anniversary of...
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Making the Case for Public Rail Ownership
The National Transportation Safety Board announced in June that the infamous East Palestine, Ohio, freight train derailment was caused by a defective wheel bearing. But that technical issue does not...
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A Bold Vision On Housing Is Needed To Win Big Change
The law school clinic that I direct at Indiana University represents tenants in local eviction courts. Our client Tanya needed pay-up-front emergency dental surgery, so she did not have enough money...
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A Reflection On Venezuela
Boaventura de Sousa Santos A reflection on Venezuela I am not, nor have I ever been, a staunch Chavista. Hugo Chavez was a benevolent political meteorite who shook the Latin American sub-continent and...
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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?
The aircraft manufacturer Boeing, granted the authority by the Federal Aviation Administration in 2009 to self-certify compliance, uses that authority to cut regulatory corners—with tragic results.1 A...
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When ‘Prophets’ Become Memes: Rise and Fall of Benjamin Netanyahu
Great orators in history would not have been recognized as such if their words carried no value. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is neither a great orator, nor did his speech before a joint...
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Out With the Old: Dreaming of a Different Ireland
For a long time, the prospects for a unified Ireland were bleak; it was an idea consigned to the dustbin of history, remembered only by romantics, historians, diehard republicans and fringe elements of...
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Get Up, Stand Up
Dear Z Community, This August, during Z’s fundraising drive, we are asking you to take action with us. It’s time to get up and stand up, not just in opposition to all the horrors unfolding around us,...
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Capitalism Kills — The Case For Ecosocialism
A catastrophic event took place on Earth about 12,000 years ago. At that time, the Earth was just coming out of its last ice age. An increasing amount of solar radiation was pouring into the northern...
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Rolling With The Punches
Imane Khelif must be feeling awfully confused. Out of nowhere, a woman who was raised in a poor, conservative family in Biban Mesbah—an agricultural village in central Algeria that even most Algerians...
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Gaza Has 14 Times More Debris Than Total Created in All Conflicts Since 2008
Israel’s relentless bombing campaign in Gaza has, over the course of 300 days, created a staggering amount of debris — not only burying Palestinians alive and destroying life-supporting infrastructure,...
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Where Is The Biden Plan To End The War In Ukraine?
Almost 100 days have now passed since the Congress passed $61 billion in emergency funding for Ukraine, a measure that included a condition that required the Biden Administration to present to the...
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Prisoner Swap With Russia “Offers A Possible Pathway” To Peace In Ukraine
We speak with The Nation‘s Katrina vanden Heuvel about the prisoner swap between Russia, the United States and several other countries on Thursday that saw the release of 24 people, with 16 prisoners...
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The Gaza War: The Glory of the Polycrisis
This commentary, the fifth in a series on “The Polycrisis and the Global Green New Deal,” takes the war that began in Gaza and is spreading throughout the Middle East as a laboratory for dissecting the...
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The Undemocratic Reality of Capitalism
Fans of capitalism like to say it is democratic or that it supports democracy. Some have stretched language so far as to literally equate capitalism with democracy, using the terms interchangeably. No...
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Demolitions in a West Bank Village Show How Far Israeli Settler Violence Will Go
On June 26, after fourteen years of avoiding destruction, the Israeli military entered the village of Umm al-Kheir and demolished eleven homes, the village council tent, and the solar electricity room,...
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What Does Arming Israel Cost Us?
What will it take to end Israel’s genocide in Gaza? That’s the question confounding people of conscience all over the world since last October. After Israeli citizens, tax-paying residents of the...
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The Rise Of The African Left
The number of African countries falling under military rule in recent years has dominated debate about the uncertainty of the future of democracy on the continent, as is the case in other parts of the...
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In Fast Food, Worker Stress Is the Business Model
Inside the factory-like environment of a fast-food kitchen, sodas should be the easiest menu item to serve. At my restaurant, a pair of machines pours them automatically as soon as we enter them into...
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