How Financial Interests Influence News Making Decisions
Author, Ashely Rindsberg, discusses his book “The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times’s Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History.”
Here Comes the ’70s
By Matthew Walter, The American Conservative It is somehow absurdly fitting that Joe Biden, who entered the United States Senate in 1973 at the age of 30 as an opponent of racial busing, is presiding over a return to the 1970s. The Seventies are one of the few […]
PIPELINE REOPENS, Is Gas Shortage Over?
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the Colonial Pipeline resuming operations and President Biden’s actions to thwart future cyberattacks.
DEBUNKING Inflation Scaremongering
I lean toward the view that inflation is more of a long-run than immediate danger. Inflation is a potential though not inevitable consequence of more immediate problems. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti share their thoughts on new numbers revealing the Core CPI Inflation numbers.
Homeless Oaklanders were tired of the housing crisis. So they built a ‘miracle’ village
By Gabrielle Canon, The Guardian Under a highway, beautiful structures offer food, healthcare, showers and a free ‘store’ – as well as a strong sense of community. Tucked under a highway overpass in West Oakland, just beyond a graveyard of charred cars and dumped debris, lies an unexpected […]
When Eminent Domain Is Used for Economic Assassination
By J.D. Tuccille, Reason Government officials who wield land grabs to pick economic winners and losers now want to use them to kill disfavored businesses. In 2005, the United States Supreme Court ruled that it’s constitutional for government officials to use eminent domain to steal private property and […]
Gas CRISIS Expands As States Declare States Of Emergency
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to fuel shortages popping up across the country following a cyberattack.
Elitist NY Mayoral Candidates Have NO CLUE How Expensive Housing Is In Brooklyn
This is like when Nelson Rockefeller was running for office in the 1950s and described “the average guy making about $100,000 a year.” Krystal Ball demonstrates how “wealth serving wealth has nearly shut working class people out of politics.”
Oxfam: 8 richest billionaires have as much wealth as the world’s poorest half
By Marion Solletty, Politico Global inequality is so significant that the eight richest billionaires have as much wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population combined, NGO Oxfam said Monday. In a report released ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the charity estimated the funds available to the eight […]
These three firms own corporate America
By Jan Fichtner, Eelke Heemskerk, Javier Garcia-Bernardo, The Conversation A fundamental change is underway in stock market investing, and the spin-off effects are poised to dramatically impact corporate America. In the past, individuals and large institutions mostly invested in actively managed mutual funds, such as Fidelity, in which […]
GOP Account OWNS Moms To Own The Libs
Team Rising discusses claims by the GOP that President Biden is “proving to be a detriment to getting mothers back to work.”
The Business Class Has Been Fearmongering About Worker Shortages for Centuries
Maybe if employers paid more, they would have more applicants from people who didn’t view working for them as a waste of time. Who wants to bother working for $8 bucks an hour, 25 hours a week at Wal-Mart with no benefits? You could do better being an […]
The Feminist Struggle Against Debt
By Ed “Once Upon A Time” Miles, Crixeo Recently, the transnational feminist movement has taken up the struggle against debt as a banner of struggle as part of the dynamics of the feminist strike. Around the world, we have said, “We want ourselves alive and debt-free!” (Argentina), “It […]
Chipotle Is a Criminal Enterprise Built on Exploitation
By Alex N. Press, Jacobin Chipotle’s contempt for the lives of its workers is appalling, even by fast-food standards. But there’s finally some good news: New York City is suing the fast-casual chain for nearly half a billion dollars, for 600,000 separate violations of workers’ rights. New York […]
Why UK Labour Party Is Losing Working Class Voters
Journalist, Zaid Jilani, discusses the UK’s Labor Party and how they lost the working class.
PIPELINE Closure Shut INDEFINITELY Over Ransomware, Could Send Gas SKYROCKETING
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to a ransomware attack that forced the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline.
Did Covid Launch A Work REVOLUTION
Krystal Ball explains how work has become “more and more the totality of our identity.”
FACT FROM FICTION On Biggest Jobs Miss In DECADES
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti analyze the latest jobs report.
Envisioning a Greener New Deal
A webinar that took place a few days ago to which ATS was a contributor. We must halt environmental destruction while providing a better quality of life for everyone on Earth. Since our hope has been that alternative energy can replace fossil fuels, it can be overwhelming to […]
The enduring relevance of the classical transnational labour movement and the ‘global justice’ movement
By Donnacha DeLong An examination of the enduring relevance of the syndicalist period of trade unionism and the ‘global justice’ movement, tracing the history of both and the influence on the first movement on the more recent and the aspects that have continued relevance. READ MORE
People LOVE Biden’s Spending Programs As GOP Attacks FAIL
Krystal Ball digs into polling by Morning Consult analyzing support for the American Families Plan.
Inside FIGHT OVER Higher Wages At Denny’s
Daily Poster founder, David Sirota, discusses the pressure Denny’s is facing from shareholders who want the company to end support for the National Restaurant Association lobbying efforts against a $15 minimum wage.
Are We Facing Eviction CRISIS When Moratorium Expires?
Team Rising reacts to the upcoming end of a federal moratorium on evictions.
Evaluating Biden’s Shift Leftward
In this Wolff Responds, Prof. Wolff comments on Biden’s policies and his shift to the left. Wolff argues that Biden is simply softening and slowing the effects of a declining US economy, but shows no signs of wanting to stop or reverse it. Biden’s tactics are no where […]
The PMC Thesis Relies Upon Forgetting Historical Materialism
My view is that the liberal-technocratic “left” (and not the socialist left) is the managerial elite within the context of a wider state-capitalist plutocracy dominated by technological, financial, and industrial oligarchs in collusion/collaboration with the national security state. This shouldn’t be too hard to understand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra1a2L3P4e4 This video […]
Incarceration, crime, and race | Glenn Loury & Adaner Usmani
08:45 Public sentiment and punitive policy on crime 18:02 Glenn and Adaner on crime in America vs. Northern Europe 20:58 Democracy’s effect on criminal justice policy 24:29 Does the “New Jim Crow” cause higher incarceration? 31:33 Glenn puts on the hat of a Trump voter on crime and […]
How Should the Left Think About Crime?
Adaner Usmani, assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University, joins us to discuss the current wave of violent crime in the US, the law-and-order backlashes of prior decades, and the origins of mass incarceration. The Jacobin Show airs every Wednesday at 6 PM ET and […]
New Perspectives on Anarchism, Labour and Syndicalism: The Individual, the National and the Transnational
By Constance Bantman and David Berry Recent years have seen an upsurge of interest in the history of European anarchist and syndicalist movements. The rise of alter-globalisation protest borrowing many of its direct-action tactics from pre-World War I anarchism and syndicalism has been important in bringing it on […]
What the Fed DOESN’T Want You to Know About Inflation
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Is it a temporary blip… or the beginning of a long-term trend? That’s the key question facing consumers, investors, and retirees when it comes to inflation. There’s no denying that inflation pressures have picked up dramatically over the past 12 months. Price […]
Are Businesses CRYING WOLF On Labor Shortages?
WAPO White House economics reporter, Jeffrey Stein, details how President Biden is dealing with labor shortages and inflation.
Judge STRIKES DOWN Eviction Moratorium, Is Crisis Coming?
I suspect that homelessness and housing costs will be the future of class struggle in the US as opposed to organized labor, along with issues related to debt. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss a federal judge’s decision to vacate the CDC’s eviction moratorium.
Bezos CAUGHT Using WAPO Ownership To Cover Up His SEXTING Scandal
More aristocracy/clerisy collaboration. Saagar Enjeti discusses how the book “Amazon Unbound” reveals that Jeff Bezos used his ownership of WAPO to combat personal crisis.
Biden CAVES To Pressure, Lifts Vaccine IP. Here’s What To Watch NEXT
Perhaps this could be a foot in the door to abolishing patents generally, although that’s obviously an uphill battle (or more like climbing Mount Everest). Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti weigh in on President Joe Biden’s decision to back Covid vaccine intellectual property waivers to expand access to […]
Dem, GOP Senators CAUGHT Trading TENS OF MILLIONS On Stock During Pandemic
Saagar Enjeti makes an argument for restrictions that would prevent lawmakers from “succumbing to self interest.”
Is Biden ALREADY Blowing It On Anti-Trust?
Research director at the American Economic Liberties Project, Matt Stoller, explains how Joe Biden may have given the green light to mega mergers.
Biden Promised Bare Minimum And FAILING To Deliver Even On That
Fmr national press secretary to Bernie Sanders & co-host of The Bad Faith Podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, shares her thoughts on the American Family Plan only offering free community college.
Panel REACTS LIVE As Trump FB Ban Upheld
The tech-oligarchy is increasingly assuming the powers of the medieval Catholic church or the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Team Rising discusses Donald Trump’s new social platform.
Fauci PAVES WAY For Biden To CAVE To Pharma On Patent Protections
Abolish patents. Period. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Dr. Fauci’s statement that he’s “agnostic” on vaccine patents.
Eighties Nostalgia: No, there will not be another Reagan
A far-right commentator explains why the America of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan is finished. And good riddance. The Reagan Revolution was just as damaging to what Sam Francis called the “post-bourgeois proletariat” (the conventional working to middle classes) as anything from the Left. While the cultural assault […]
The Coming Demand Surge Brings Back Memories of 1970s Inflation
By William N. Walker, Wall Street Journal The lifting of lockdowns and easy monetary and fiscal policy will likely lead to much higher prices. The last bout of inflation the U.S. experienced was in the 1970s. Commentators duly note this historic reference but don’t really understand it—many weren’t […]
Why the Conservative War on Woke Capital Is Doomed To Fail
I would go further than this analysis by Soave and argue that “woke capitalism” IS conservatism at this point if by conservatism we mean someone that wants to defend the interests of the existing ruling class and political status quo. Those who oppose “woke capitalism” from the right […]
The Missing Right-Wing Firms: A Beckerian Puzzle
By Bryan Caplan I teach the economics of discrimination every chance I get. Why? Because the analytical framework, launched by the great Gary Becker in 1957, mightily illuminates so many questions that we care so much about. When you see that almost all garbage collectors are male, for […]
The Missing Right-Wing Firms: Hanania’s Plausible Resolution
By Bryan Caplan Last year, I tried to figure out why there aren’t a lot more right-wing (or apolitical) firms. A recent piece by Richard Hanania comes down firmly in favor of my Explanation #4. To review: Explanation #4. Few moderates or right-wingers care enough to create a major profit […]
Why is Everything Liberal?
When the majority of the capitalist class and the intelligence services have adopted “wokeness” as their self-legitimating ideology, we know that the totalitarian humanist revolution is complete. By Richard Hanania In a democracy, every vote is supposed to be equal. If about half the country supports one side […]
The Centrality of Social Relations: E.P. Thompson’s Concept of Class and the Renewal of Historical Materialism
By Gary Blank E. P. Thompson was an avowedly Marxist historian, but did not hide his aversion for what he termed Marx’s “Grundrisseface.” Marx’s critique of political economy, Thompson suggested, only confronted the political economists on their own turf. Marx became entrapped within the “circuits of capital,” developing […]
That Suburban Home Buyer Could Be a Foreign Government
By Konrad Putzier, Wall Street Journal Overseas investors turn to America’s single-family rentals. Big foreign investment firms that buy office buildings, hotels and shopping centers around the world have a new favorite real-estate play: single-family homes in American suburbs. These institutions are partnering with U.S. housing companies to […]
The battle for 1042 Cutler Street
By Eli Saslow, Washington Post As landlords and tenants go broke across the U.S., the next crisis point of the pandemic approaches. SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — The landlord had highlighted the first of the month on his office calendar and marked it as “Pay Day,” but now the first […]
Bernie TRASHED For Telling Truth About Poverty And Conspiracy Theories
Team Rising discusses the reaction to Sen. Bernie Sanders explanation for the emergence of Qanon.
How Pandemic And School Closures Set Women Back
Krystal Ball and Emily Jashinsky react to polling that finds 25% of women are financially worse off a year into the pandemic.
Arkansas Ends Sales Taxes on Gold and Silver; Additional States May Soon Follow
(May 3, 2021) Little Rock, Arkansas – By signing sound money legislation today, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has officially ended sales taxation on gold, silver, platinum, and palladium bullion and coins– thereby setting an example for legislators in New Jersey, Maine, Ohio, and Tennessee, who are still considering similar measures in […]
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