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After decades of deference to the market, states are exerting greater control over capital. In the face of climate change, it may be too little, too late.
Mie Inouye and Daniel Martinez HoSang discuss the challenges of organizing in a society that tears groups apart.
Instead of pouring public funds into private industry—as the United States did with COVID-19 vaccines—we must build public capacity and prioritize public objectives.
Far from a metaphysical battle between fanaticism and tolerance, the Rushdie affair exemplifies the marketization of hurt sentiments.
Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today's regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.
To escape the imperial legacies of the IMF and World Bank, we need a radical new vision for global economic governance.
For decades, UK-based financial institutions have exploited loopholes to subvert regulations and shield the wealthy from scrutiny.
Companies are unreliable allies in the fight for queer rights and social justice.
The Global South will suffer the most as colonial legacies, climate change, and capitalism continue to plunge millions into hunger.
The war in Ukraine is shaped by global neoliberalism, sexism, and racism—not just Cold War dynamics.
Critiques of vaccine mandates continue a neoliberal tradition of idolizing private choice at the expense of the public good.
Financial globalization was supposed to spur development. Instead it transfers money to the Global North and exacerbates existing inequalities.
Center-left parties should learn that small-bore solutions are a waste of time.
We’re witnessing the last-ditch effort of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis.
Markets have played a central role in the country’s explosive development since the 1980s. But as GDP rose, inequality has soared—a stark turn away from earlier socialist ideals.
Mainstream economics ignores the massive government interventions that “free market” capitalism requires.
Noam Chomsky on his new book, the Capitol coup attempt, 2020 unrest, and the prospects for progress under Biden.
Narendra Modi’s government has used lockdown to force further neoliberalization and continue its assault on pro-democracy activists.
If we are to emerge from this era of crisis, we need legal thinking that operates on fundamentally different presumptions.
Leaders of the left abandoned the language of transformation in the 1980s—at a cost. Can it be regained?
Many reject privatization for its distributional consequences. The deeper problem is that it threatens the very foundation of political legitimacy.
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