We Need Electoral Reform — and a Whole Lot More

The United States would be much better off with a multiparty, proportional representation system. But we shouldn't delude ourselves that this “one quick fix” would root out the rot that pervades America's political economy.

Chris Maisano · 806 views · unrated

Corporations Are Human Creations. We Can't Let Them Threaten Our Survival

The concentration of corporate power is driving us toward catastrophe. We need new organizational models that serve the common good.

David Korten · 806 views · unrated

When Climate Met COVID: 7 Reasons We Should Tackle These Challenges Together

We face not one but three simultaneous inter-connected crises: the COVID-19 Emergency, the Climate and Biodiversity Emergency, and the Crisis of Capitalism. We urgently need connected constructive responses.

Guy Dauncey · 3,576 views · unrated

Pandemic Response Requires Post-Growth Economic Thinking

Amid a horrific human tragedy of sickness and death, much of it taking place in hospitals staffed by brave but overworked and under-equipped doctors and nurses, we are all learning once again what it feels like when economic growth comes to a shuddering stop and the economy...

Richard Heinberg · 2,981 views · 100%

Who Owns the Future of California's Energy? Its Residents

For many homeowners, rooftop solar is a smart move. But what if you could get every home and business in your entire county to switch to renewables, all at once? This is essentially what’s happening in my state, California: a quiet revolution awkwardly named community choice...

Peter Kalmus · 1,216 views · unrated

A Decolonial Critique of the Concept of White Privilege: Why Injustice Is Not a Privilege

Introduction Many progressive people use the concept of “white privilege” to analyze racism. Critique is an essential component of decolonial knowledge production. It is a way of improving our theoretical and activist work. A decolonial critique looks at the concept from the...

Sandew Hira · 7,291 views · unrated

To Save US Democracy, Tax the Rich at 90%

Wealthy people in America screamed and yelled when FDR said he would do it, claiming a hike from 25% to 90% would crash the economy, but instead that top tax rate kicked off the first middle class to encompass more than half a nation’s population in world history.

Thom Hartmann · 1,265 views · unrated

Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa, and a Hot Tub of Death

When a mega-billionaire carps that a “doomsday outlook” is harming the climate movement, it's important to say many things in response, including this: he's dead wrong.

Juan Cole · 398 views · unrated

American Decline in the Fossil Fuel Age

By the time Donald Trump leaves office in 2029, this country will be distinctly on the imperial decline. By discouraging alternative energy and encouraging fossil fuels, President Trump is undercutting America’s economic competitiveness in the most fundamental way imaginable.

Alfred W. Mccoy · 910 views · unrated

How Public Groceries Can Make Food Affordable Again

Errol Schweizer, a former national vice president of grocery at Whole Foods, argues in Jacobin that the private sector is responsible for ever-rising grocery prices and can’t be relied on to fix the problem. Our food system needs a public option.

Errol Schweizer · 423 views · unrated

The Pathology of Power: How America Learned to Love State Violence

The comments celebrating Renee Good's death reveal a psychological pattern familiar to anyone who has studied authoritarian movements: the sadistic pleasure derived from watching power crush the powerless. It's the same impulse that filled Roman coliseums and medieval...

Tim Hjersted · 1,553 views · unrated

Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

When we talk about saving the world, what world are we talking about? Not the globe itself, obviously. But also not the biological world—the world of life. The world of life, strangely enough, is not in danger (though thousands and perhaps even millions of species are). Even...

Daniel Quinn · 18,855 views · 100%