Democracy

Important issues are buried in the fog of manufactured crises, designed to stir popular sentiment but actually legitimizing policies that benefit the wealthy and hurt working- and middle-class communities, …

Longtime activist, historian and political-economic theorist Gar Alperovitz conducted an email interview with us on the occasion of the creation of his new website, the Pluralist Commonwealth.

Scholar Henry Giroux says that America is slipping away, and being replaced with a surveillance state and culture of violence that's threatening the very core of American democracy.

Despite an overwhelming post-9/11 cultural consensus, serving in the military does not automatically make anyone a hero.

The political-electoral reform Mexico's National Congress approved to organize 2015 elections is a step backward for indigenous towns in Mexico.

Anti-politics rejects the electoral-representative institutions of contemporary democracies. There are two opposite forms of anti-politics, one striving toward a technocracy controlled by oligarchies and corporations, and one striving toward …

Neoliberal governments invoke phrases like “collateral damage” or “military necessity” to absolve them of the horrors they inflict. We need to develop a new political language.

After a week of direct actions protesting privatization and water service shutoffs, the people of Detroit reject a Wall Street-dictated world, decry commodification of the commons and push back …

Hundreds are set to occupy Hong Kong's government and financial district to push for “genuine democracy.”

The Denton, Texas city council failed to pass a fracking ban in after an eight-hour meeting residents called “theater.”