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Moral debates about sex work often overlook the wider effect of online porn in shaping our digital existence. More than just a corner of the internet, it has profoundly shaped how platforms keep our attention, and how we present ourselves online.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued an unusual warning this week to the country’s largest asset managers and a climate-focused investor group over their roles in a 2021 campaign that replaced board directors at ExxonMobil. The commission published a letter saying it had concluded a probe into the entities, and while it found no […]

The message from United Auto Workers members in their recent internal elections, in which President Shawn Fain and his slate are poised to win big, is clear, argues former Fain Chief of Staff Chris Brooks: they want their union to keep fighting.

The rise of DSA over the last decade is one of the most striking developments in American politics. The group has successfully navigated the US electoral system but continues to face considerable challenges in rooting itself in the US working class.

Eric Hobsbawm was in Berlin when Adolf Hitler took power, in Paris at the Popular Front’s peak, and in the Communist Party when it all came down. Emile Chabal’s new biography follows a historian who always asked what remained possible after defeat.

Some commentators are claiming that Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed once supported Medicare for All and now merely backs a “public option.” Matt Bruenig explains why this is not true.

OTTAWA (TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE) – Following the past two days’ meetings between Indigenous leaders from Canada and Amazonian countries to discuss the environmental, social, and human rights consequences associated with the expansion of oil and gas projects, as well as the role played by Canadian companies and financial institutions on […]

In studying with Anwar Shaikh, economist Howard Botwinick learned that Karl Marx’s account of capitalist competition is far richer than his critics assumed. That insight, Botwinick argues in an interview, offers the working class a road map to victory.

This story is part of an investigation conducted by an international team of journalists based at The Outlaw Ocean Project. Read the other stories here. Xinjiang is a land of unforgiving extremes. Across its 600,000 square miles on China’s far northwest frontier, barely six inches of rain falls each year. The region’s Taklamakan Desert has […]

Pedro Sánchez’s coalition won reelection in 2023 based on a real record of measures to rein in the cost of living. Pulling off the same trick now may be much harder, after three years of institutional inertia.

The European Green Party rushed to condemn the Greens of England and Wales when they voted to support a single democratic state in Palestine. It has never condemned the German Greens for supporting Israel’s genocidal violence against the Palestinians.

Around 100 Baltimore residents packed a community hall in the Curtis Bay neighborhood on the evening of Oct. 1. One after another, they implored the Maryland Department of the Environment not to renew the air permit for the city’s largest trash incinerator. The speakers—young residents and retirees, longtime neighbors, doctors, students and environmental advocates—described the […]

Part Six of The Vanguard in Retreat.

Federal Offices United States Representative, 1st District No Recommendation California’s recent redistricting pits Republican James Gallagher against longtime Democratic representative Mike McGuire, formerly of the 2nd district. Gallagher is running on a typical republican platform that touts “tougher laws” on crime, defending property rights, and “protecting” farms and businesses from government regulation. But most tellingly, […]

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A new report paints a dark picture of the state of global wildlife—but also highlights flickers of light where some populations are on the upswing.  Over the past half-century, populations of thousands of vertebrate species across the globe have decreased in size by 73 percent on average, according to the “Living Planet” report published Wednesday […]

The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) is an independent source of technical oversight of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) defense nuclear facilities.

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The politically driven attempt to deport war critic Leonid Ragozin from Latvia shows that liberal democracies are starting to employ the very Trumpist and Putinist measures they claim to despise.

The start of the school year drew attention to disastrously dilapidated classrooms in the Paris suburbs. Rather than listen to students’ complaints, the government has responded with violent repression.

After opening an investigation into political strategist Fernando Cerimedo, “MAGA’s man in Latin America,” for attempted femicide and drug ties, Bolivia’s attorney general was arrested by his own government. Even the vice president now fears for his life.

Part of Karl Marx’s project was a thoroughgoing critique of capitalism as system of exploitative social relations. But he also thought seriously about the essential place of work in the good life.