Music has never been just entertainment. It is protest, memory, identity, and community condensed into sound. That is why those in power—whether cloaked in the cool rhetoric of neoliberal markets, the ...
The promise of neoliberalism was to liberate individuals from state regulation to better enable individuals to succeed in market competition. Firms’ profits would increase, and wealth would trickle ...
A supporter of former president Evo Morales holds a Bolivian flag during clashes with police in La Paz, Bolivia, on November 13, 2019. (Natacha Pisarenko / AP Photo) By signing up, you confirm that ...
Just as Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) heads of state prepared to meet in Brasilia on November 13-14, hosted by Jair Bolsonaro, a double political earthquake hit: Lula’s freedom from ...
Since the Great Recession, observers have examined the unrelenting challenges to the liberal order. The historian Gary Gerstle’s new study, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, scrutinizes ...
The second millennium was nearly over, and so were global capitalism’s worst “financial troubles.” Or so one influential economist suggested in 1999. On the eve of this century, MIT’s Rudiger ...
Demonstrators protest the increased police presence in New York City subways in Harlem on Friday, November 22. (Chris Gelardi) A global insurrection is currently taking place. From Chile to Ecuador to ...
The era of US-led capitalist globalization seems to be coming to an end. For Filipino scholar and activist Walden Bello, it’s time to build a new, more equal distribution of power and resources around ...
Reviewed Work: Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran by Shahram Khosravi Not about human rights per se, Khosravi's book demonstrates, in its own distinctive ways, the irrelevance of cultural ...