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In what could very well be a deleted scene from 2006’s Idiocracy, but what is instead a real clip from our increasingly dumb and dangerous political landscape, a Republican gubernatorial candidate in Missouri recently used a flamethrower to set books aflame as giddy supporters cheered on. This scene could

The cushy trappings of modern life have tricked us into believing the conflict between labor and capital belongs to a bygone era. You’re not working fourteen hours a day in the pitch black of a coal mine so you might put food on your family’s table. Your boss

I haven’t written in a while. Believe me, dear reader, it is not for a lack of trying. Countless mornings have been spent staring at a blank piece of paper trying to make the words come out of me, like trying to squeeze the last bit of toothpaste out

For all the energy I expend on detailing the deleterious effects of the right wing’s political bad faith, I acknowledge – through a clenched jaw and gritted molars – that it is a useful tactic for which there is no easy counter. The vitality of bad faith attacks launched by the

Conservatives are always so close to identifying the source of their suffering, the core of society’s wrenching inequalities that have immiserated everyday working people for so long. They were close during the early days of the COVID pandemic, when it was clear multibillion dollar pharmaceutical companies that had intentionally