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Who’s Afraid of Free Trade?

Colin Vanderburg / n+1 Sep 20, 2024 Economic historian Marc-William Palen on the largely forgotten legacy of the “economic peace” movement. Dig deeper ( 23 Min. Read )

The Davos Set’s Most Dangerous Delusion

Conor Lynch / Truthdig Jan 29, 2020 Economist Milton Friedman understood what our global elites either can't or won't: Compassionate capitalism is a contradiction in terms. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

We Must Come Together to Beat Back Neoliberal Fascism

Henry Giroux / Truthdig Dec 18, 2019 Divide-and-conquer political strategies used within and beyond the U.S. have led to atomization, which must be overcome. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )

The Capitalists Are Afraid

Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish / Truthdig Sep 9, 2019 A Business Roundtable statement about the purpose of corporations shows that ruling elites fear their crimes are coming back to haunt them. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Noam Chomsky: Trump Is History Repeated as Farce

Jacob Sugarman / Truthdig Jul 5, 2019 In a new interview, the leftist author and intellectual attempts to make sense of the president's often confounding political project. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Integrity Forged in Cages

Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish / Truthdig May 13, 2019 Former prisoners now graduating from Rutgers have triumphed over a system designed to crush them. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

The Many-Sided, Overlapping Meanings of May Day

Paul Street / Truthdig May 1, 2019 The working-class holiday has Marxist and anarchist industrial-era roots, but the significance of May 1 goes deeper than that. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

The Rule of the Uber-Rich Means Tyranny or Revolution

Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish / Truthdig Oct 22, 2018 Their greed will crush society and the ecosystem unless they are driven from power. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

American Anomie

Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish / Truthdig Sep 24, 2018 In an era of "ruleless-ness," society opens the door to self-destructive pathologies and demagogues. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Our ‘Rentier Capitalism’ Is One More Nail in Earth’s Coffin

Paul Street / Truthdig Jul 29, 2018 The U.S. and other "advanced" nations have created a global class structure shaped by shocking inequality and poverty. Worse, it’s accelerating the race to ecological disaster. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Why Work Isn’t Working in Trump’s America

Paul Street / Truthdig Jun 26, 2018 The U.S. employment picture is not as positive as the government is spinning it. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Needed Now: A Real and Radical Left

Paul Street / Truthdig May 30, 2018 Despite what we may hear from the media, Republicans and Democrats themselves, the Democratic Party is not "the left" but just another slave to the corporate capitalism that is leading us to destruction. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )