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The Republicans (GOP), traditionally the U.S.’s anti-tax party, now promise to use tariffs to wage trade wars, to massively deport
The immigration issue has split and/or weakened both center and left parties and movements across many nations in recent years. Serious economic and...
The immigration issue has split and/or weakened both center and left parties and movements across many nations in recent years. Serious economic and...
An old theme within social theory holds that societies with very unequal distributions of wealth can sustain their social cohesion so long as total...
The evidence suggests that empires often react to periods of their own decline by over-extending their coping mechanisms. Military actions,...
The evidence suggests that empires often react to periods of their own decline by over-extending their coping mechanisms. Military actions,...
From its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those who felt victimized and those who felt
From its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those who felt victimized and those who felt blessed. Where...
In the wake of his huge defeat on June 30, 2024, when 80 percent of voters rejected French “centrist” President
Both Trump and Biden imposed high tariffs on imported products made in China and other countries. Those impositions broke with and departed from the...
The Washington Post’s journalists recently exposed what many already suspected or knew. Donors from society’s richest 1 percent...
When Napoleon engaged Russia in a European land war, the Russians mounted a determined defense, and the French lost. When Hitler tried the same, the...
In 1863, the Russian social critic, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, published a novel entitled “What Is to Be Done?” Its story revolves around a central...
Democracy is incompatible with class-divided economic systems. Masters rule in slavery, lords in feudalism, and employers in capitalism. Whatever...