Dreams of the Rich
From Honduras to California, the dreams of the rich are reshaping urban spaces into exclusive private domains. The future of our cities must not be ceded to elites striving to construct walled utopias. In California, a group of tech and finance people are working on a secretive project to build a city in Solano County, near San
Capitalism
BY PAN PYLAS AND MASHA MACPHERSONUpdated 11:32 AM EST, January 15, 2024 DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The world could have its first trillionaire within a decade, anti-poverty organization Oxfam International said Monday in its annual assessment of global inequalities timed to the gathering of political and business elites at the Swiss ski resort of Davos. Oxfam, which for years
Democracy
From NYT Opinion Jan. 6, 2024. Reposted here due to paywall By The Editorial Board At the outset of this election year, with Donald Trump leading the race to be the Republican presidential nominee, Americans should pause to consider what a second Trump term would mean for our country and the world and to weigh the
Class Struggle
The history of socialist politics in the Global South shows that all capitalists want a government that will govern unapologetically in their interests — and would prefer the intervention of foreign powers than democracy and socialism at home. Today, we too often study Salvador Allende’s government nostalgically, as a tale of heroic struggle and martyrdom.
Art
NYT Article by Keith Plocek As a middle-aged man, I sometimes get weird stares when people catch me slapping a sticker on the back of a stop sign. I don’t look like the typical vandal, I guess, though I suspect more of them resemble me than people might expect. It’s been years since I met
Labor
Elon Musk is attempting to expand Tesla into Sweden and circumvent its unions — but Swedish labor has a long history of taking on big US firms. If they can bring Tesla to heel, it will mark a major victory for organized labor across the globe. Since the end of October, mechanics at Tesla workshops