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Tariffs, TikTok, and Trump: Social Media Under Capitalism

Last April, the US Senate passed a bill requiring TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell to a US company or face a nationwide...

Hands Off! – Millions Fill The Streets In Biggest Nationwide Protests Against Trump 2.0

Across the country, an anti-Trump movement is finally beginning to pick up speed and coalesce. Young people in many major cities have held weekly...

The Radical Roots of Earth Day

The world’s on fire and Trump and the billionaires are taking away the fire hydrants. He’s opened up so much federal land to drilling...

Trump & Musk Defeated In Wisconsin Supreme Court Election: What Next?

The recent Wisconsin Supreme Court elections represented the first significant electoral test since the beginning of the new Trump era of American politics. Conservative...

Trump’s Trade War Hits Mexico

In a span of months with a flurry of attacks on working people, there is one thing that Donald Trump has waffled on more...

Trump’s Trade War Sends World Economy Hurtling Towards Recession

Since Trump took office, the metaphors commentators typically use to signal profound and dramatic changes in the world have become rather clichéd. Sea change...

Tax Day: Make Billionaires Pay!

As April 15 approaches, many US citizens feel great anxiety: Tax Day is almost upon us. Every year, ordinary people must navigate the American...

Bernie Sanders Rally Tour Exposes Mass Anger At Trump & Do-Nothing Democrats: But What Comes Next?

A recent CNN poll reports that 77% of Democratic voters believe Democrats in Congress are doing too little to oppose Trump’s agenda. Sixty-five percent...

Socialist Q&A: What’s Going On With Trump’s Tariffs?

What Happened On “Liberation Day”? On April 2, Trump escalated the trade war by adding a blanket 10% tariff on all goods imported from other...

Why It’s Relevant That “Adolescence” Is The #1 Netflix Series In The U.S.

(Mild spoilers) In the early days after Adolescence’s release, it was touted as a powerful mystery thriller about a young boy accused of murder. There...

California Fire Season, All Year Long: An Account From A Firefighter

Jake Callan is a firefighter in California. In early January, my local crew of firefighters in Northern California said goodbye to the first engines sent south...

Book Review: “Confronting Capitalism” Or Accommodating It?

Over the past decade and a half, the crisis of global capitalism has led to a massive upsurge in struggle and support for socialist...

Trans Women are Women

Even before Trump took office for his second term, trans people have been increasingly under attack. In 2024, a record of over 600 state...

Trump Brings Back The Death Penalty

On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order for his Attorney General to pursue more death penalty convictions. Trump has...

Ceasefire Broken — Netanyahu & Trump Renew The Slaughter

Netanyahu’s far-right government, with the full support of Trump, has broken the fragile ceasefire and resumed the Israeli military’s genocidal war on Gaza. In...

“Hard Landing” Economic Nightmares Are Back

The old neoliberal globalized order is falling apart, but this doesn’t mean it’s being replaced with anything better. In fact, its collapse has produced...

AI vs. the Climate

In 2022, OpenAI released a public sample of ChatGPT, a text-based generative artificial “intelligence” (GenAI or AI). The proliferation of ChatGPT led to an...

Gen Z is Out of the Closet – Now, Into the Streets!

Nearly 1 in 10 US adults identify as LGBTQ+ today—3 times more than in 2010. However, this comes at a time when right-wing attacks...