Society / John Fugelsang and Pope Leo XIV remind us that Christian nationalism and capitalism get in the way of the message ...

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In 2026, America will mark a remarkable convergence of anniversaries. It will be the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s The ...

After a long hesitation, Sahra Wagenknecht announced on Monday the formation of a new party, which had been expected for months. With Wagenkecht, nine other members of the Bundestag (federal ...

The 20th century saw the failure of command communism. The 21st century has become the failure of global capitalism. The fatal flaw of capitalism everywhere is its unending greed and waste, and its ...

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The horrific massacres on both sides in the war between Israel and Hamas over recent days are just one more sign of what capitalism has in store for the rest of us. The poison of nationalism, a ...

How to assess the health of democratic capitalism in the United States? Fundamentally, it is very strong. The marriage of democratic politics and a free-market economy continues to strengthen each, ...

Followers of my writing have I hope noticed me repeatedly arguing that capitalism produces four mutually reinforcing and multiplying apocalyptic horsemen: ecocide, pandemicide, potentially terminal ...

A conversation with Thea Riofrancos about her new book Extraction and the hidden cost and obscured history of the capitalist push to monetize the energy transition. Ad Policy Solar panels in the ...

An introduction to the Arabic translation of Paul Mattick's 1959 essay "Nationalism and Socialism" by Jamal Abu Yusuf. The original, with Mattick's text, can be found here. I undertook the translation ...