Truthout
Review
Underpaid Adjunct Professors Sleep in Cars and Rely on Public Aid
A new book argues that college teaching for most faculty has increasingly turned into a gig economy.
“Avengers: Endgame” Is a Liberal War Cry
It is through the Avengers that we see the price of political failure.
A New Socialist Movement Must Oppose Both Capitalism and Imperialism
Trump's “America First” policy is a classic divide-and-conquer strategy of capitalists and imperialists.
Jordan Peele’s “Us” Is a Middle-Class Guilt Trip
The terror in “Us” is not the pain of the “American Dream,” but the terror of not maintaining it.
Surveillance Capitalism Is Destroying Our Freedom and Our Intimacy
Surveillance capitalism is doing to human nature what industrial capitalism has done to our planet.
The FBI Is the Enemy of the Left
The FBI's infiltration of the Left in the 1960s and ’70s should make us think twice about praising it.
“The Last Pig” Doesn’t Offer Any Easy Answers on Animal Farming
Allison Argo’s new documentary unravels the logic of small-scale pig farming.
When We See the Sacred in Each Other, Social Movements Flourish
We must reclaim our impulse for an authentic collective sensibility that's been co-opted by the market system.
It’s Possible to Face Climate Horrors and Still Find Hope
David Wallace-Wells, who catalyzed the climate emergency movement, examines likely outcomes of the crisis in a new book.
The Left Cannot Afford to Ignore the Global Workers’ Struggle
The “Left Case Against the EU” fails to recognize the interconnectedness of workers in a globalized economy.