BY JOSÉ MUJICA 05.14.2025 (Jacobin.com) The late Uruguayan statesman José “Pepe” Mujica argues that capitalism is not just property relations but a set of cultural values that the Left must confront with a culture of solidarity. Our spring issue, “Progress,” was called by one commentator “quite readable.” Click here to see… Continue reading
Relatives mourn the loss of loved ones killed in an Israeli attack as bodies including children are brought to Indonesian Hospital before burial in Jabalia, Gaza on May 14, 2025. (Photo: Abdalhkem Abu Riash/Anadolu via Getty Images) “Can I name someone whose work I respect who doesn’t consider it genocide?”… Continue reading
House Budget Committee Ranking Member Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) listens as Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) speaks during a markup on May 16, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images) “It is the biggest tax cuts for billionaires in American history paid for by throwing 13.7 million… Continue reading
Pair of appeals says State Bar’s offer of diversion for S.F. DA is too light by JOE ESKENAZI May 16, 2025 (MissionLocal.org) Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere.Sign up Sending District Attorney Brooke Jenkins to an ethics diversionary program would… Continue reading
by OSCAR PALMA May 16, 2025 (MissionLocal.org) Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere.Sign up Thursday was a sad day for Mission District activists who hoped to see affordable housing at the corner of 22nd and Mission streets, the site of… Continue reading
U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) left a party leadership meeting at the Capitol on April 8, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) “We need to return the Democratic Party to its roots,” said one attendee of Sen. Bernie Sanders’… Continue reading
Defeating MAGA requires transforming the Democratic Party first. That means confronting its leadership, not playing nice. CORBIN TRENT MAY 15, 2025 By Corbin Trent — Born in East Tennessee to a family of union workers, civil rights fighters, and draft dodgers. I’ve been flush, I’ve been broke. I’ve run a food… Continue reading
Olga Urbina (L) of Baltimore and her 9-month-old son Ares Webster participate in a protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court on May 14, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) “Any effort to narrow or lift the nationwide injunction on this case would lead to chaos, allowing birthright citizenship… Continue reading
