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Why Photography Is a Powerful Tool for Justice Movements Across the World
Photographs documenting social, ecological, and economic struggles expose hidden truths, counter societal amnesia, and inspire action...

The Left Chapter
Aug 66 min read


How the Rights of Nature Movement Is Reshaping Law and Culture
From the sacred peaks of Aotearoa to the rivers of Colombia and the contested waters of Lake Erie, a global movement is emerging to grant...

The Left Chapter
Jun 18 min read


The 18th Brumaire of Javier Milei
Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Jorge Coulon ‘History repeats itself:...

The Left Chapter
May 67 min read


Restoring the Wild: How Reintroducing Bison Could Revive Britain’s Landscapes and Ecosystems
Reintroducing European bison to Britain, despite their absence from its history, could help restore ecological balance by fostering...

The Left Chapter
Apr 47 min read


What Are the Origins of the Money We Use Today? Revisiting Heinrich Schurtz’s Groundbreaking Research
The pioneering research by one of the founders of economic anthropology is essential for understanding the social and institutional...
Michael Laxer
Mar 918 min read


How Mesopotamia’s Urban and Industrial Revolution Started Politics as We Know It Today
Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of modern life....
Michael Laxer
Mar 612 min read


Abolish Climate Disasters
We need to apply an abolitionist framework to climate change, pouring money into a safe and resilient climate and out of the oil-based...
Michael Laxer
Jan 236 min read


Cities Made Differently: Try Imagining Another Urban Existence
We know from history that there are many ways we can live together—let’s explore the idea. Aerroscape & Lino Zeddies, CC BY-SA 4.0 By...
Michael Laxer
Nov 23, 20246 min read


How the Built Environment Is Damaging Children’s Connection to Nature
Profit-driven urban development has disconnected us—particularly children—from the wilderness. The effects are unhealthy. An urban...
Michael Laxer
Oct 25, 202410 min read


When Children Are Murdered, What Is There to Celebrate?
By Vijay Prashad After news broke that Han Kang—the South Korean author—had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, her father—the novelist...
Michael Laxer
Oct 15, 20245 min read


How Corporate News Has Tried to Numb Americans to the Horrors in Gaza
Protest against the Israeli war on Gaza outside the New York Times building, November, 2023 -- image via X By Norman Solomon As the Gaza...
Michael Laxer
Sep 9, 20244 min read


Why Poverty Reduction Under Capitalism Is a Myth
Skid Row Los Angeles By Richard D. Wolff From its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those...
Michael Laxer
Aug 26, 20245 min read


Capitalism’s Unequal Distribution Deprives You of True Freedom
By Richard D. Wolff As the French economist Thomas Piketty most recently exposed, capitalism, across time and space, has always tended to...
Michael Laxer
Aug 7, 20248 min read


The Undemocratic Reality of Capitalism
Composite By Richard D. Wolff Fans of capitalism like to say it is democratic or that it supports democracy. Some have stretched language...
Michael Laxer
Aug 3, 20245 min read


The New Cold War and the Risk of Nuclear Annihilation
We are closer to nuclear disaster than ever before. By Charles Derber and Suren Moodliar The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 is etched into...
Michael Laxer
Jan 23, 20246 min read


Carbon Farming: A Sustainable Agriculture Technique That Keeps Soil Healthy and Combats Climate Change
How one North Dakota farmer saved his farm and livelihood using carbon-friendly farming methods. By John J. Berger What if there were a...
Michael Laxer
Jan 10, 20249 min read
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