Truthout
Review
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.
In New Film, James Baldwin’s Art Makes Love a Revolutionary Act
"If Beale Street Could Talk" transforms love into an allegory of Black America’s struggle to survive.
The World Will End in Fire
The vanishing of ice from Earth is helping to rapidly render this planet uninhabitable.
The Roots of Fascism and the Seeds for Its Defeat
German revolutionary Clara Zetkin still holds lessons for the left in the fight against fascism.