Environment

Towards a Populist Climate Action

Carter Dillard / IMI Nov 29, 2022 Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Bernie Sanders Declares It’s Time for Workers to Win the Class War

Jake Johnson / Common Dreams Aug 22, 2019 The democratic presidential candidate unveils a comprehensive plan to double union membership and strengthen labor rights. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Corporations Are Waging All-Out Class War

Jim Hightower / OtherWords Sep 2, 2018 Four tech superpowers raked in half of this year’s stock price gains by the 500 largest corporations. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

In Reality, Every Night Is ‘Purge’ Night

Leslie Lee / Truthdig Jul 28, 2018 Class- and race-conscious and uncomfortably relevant, the politically charged horror franchise doesn’t just amount to a big-screen nightmare. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

America’s Class War Hits College Football Playoffs

Eric Ortiz / Truthdig Jan 2, 2018 Non-football fans might be tempted to say, "Who cares?" But anyone interested in fairness should care. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Dan Rather: ‘Wealth Can Never Be a Measure of Worth’

Eric Ortiz / Truthdig Dec 5, 2017 The veteran journalist shares his thoughts on the Republican tax bill and class warfare in our "age of unreason." Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The GOP Crusade Against Health Care Is Class Warfare

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Mar 26, 2017 The failed Republican bill would have handed the wealthiest Americans a massive tax cut, paid for by tossing 24 million people off health care insurance. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Killer Robots and Rebel Wieners: Did Hollywood’s Working-Class Revolt Fantasies Fuel Trump’s Rise?

Aram Sinnreich / Truthdig Nov 24, 2016 Class-war fantasies are a hot new genre on the big and small screen. They might be amping up Donald Trump-mania. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

America the Great … Police State

Gore Vidal / Truthdig Sep 27, 2016 Let us accept that we are no longer a republic governed by laws—only by armed men and force. This is just like the days of Billy the Kid. You have an armed man going down a dusty street, and that is authority. And it has come to this for us. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

The Plutocrats Are Winning. Don’t Let Them!

By Bill Moyers / Common Dreams Dec 28, 2015 The vast inequality that the plutocrats and the oligarchs are creating is a death sentence for government by consent of the people. This is the fight of our lives, and how it ends is up to us. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

VIDEO: Youth in Authoritarian Times: Challenging Neoliberalism’s Politics of Disposability

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Oct 23, 2015 A kind of infantilism now shapes daily life as adults take on the role of unthinking children while children are subject to a range of disciplinary pressures that saddle them with debt and cripple their ability to be imaginative. Dig deeper ( 25 Min. Read )

Authoritarianism, Class Warfare and the Advance of Neoliberal Austerity Policies

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Jan 11, 2015 Capitalism has learned to create host organisms and in the current historical conjuncture one of those organisms is young people. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )