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by Junaid S. Ahmad

The USS Abraham Lincoln’s prolonged deployment near Iran offers a view of the human costs beneath America’s global military posture. While policymakers and strategists discuss deterrence, readiness and strategic flexibility, sailors face extended periods at sea, exhaustion, psychological strain and prolonged separation from their families. Junaid S. Ahmad examines the widening gap between the projection of American military power and the conditions experienced by those who sustain it. The article places the Lincoln’s deployment within a broader critique of US military overstretch, permanent overseas commitments and the class dynamics of war, where decisions made by political elites impose lasting burdens on military personnel.

by Joshua Frank

The amount of materials needed to sustain an electrified future at the world’s continued pace of economic growth is as remarkable as it is troubling. By one estimate, at least 384 new mines will be needed by 2035.

by Richard Heinberg

Household experience is currently about the closest thing we have to operating pilot projects. So, go solar. But notice how much energy you use and what you use it for; also, pay attention to what energy you can control, and what you can’t. You may discover that your most impactful efforts to reduce your carbon footprint involve simply reducing your travel and consumption.

by Guillermo R. Barreto

This year we commemorate the centennial of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro. Like few others, Fidel embodies human dignity and the defense of principles as unyielding values for building that other possible and necessary world of justice, equality, and peace. This article was produced by Globetrotter.

by Eirini-Erifyli Tzekou

Thessaloniki’s alternative food networks offer a grounded view of what degrowth can look like in practice. Cooperative groceries, solidarity kitchens, direct producer markets, community gardens and seed networks have developed around principles of solidarity, democratic participation, ecological sustainability and sufficiency. Emerging partly from Greece’s debt and social crisis, these initiatives have created new forms of food distribution, work and community participation. Yet they remain fragile, facing financial pressures, limited infrastructure, burnout and questions about social inclusion. This article examines both their achievements and contradictions, and considers what policymakers can learn from grassroots experiments already reshaping food systems.

Heteropessimism holds that men and women are incapable of understanding one another, foreclosing the possibility of more equal, fulfilling relations between the genders. But romantic love may offer us a way out of a social order in which everyone loses.

With Russian bombing of Ukraine intensifying, so have strikes on workplaces and killing of workers. Please see below a statement from the Independent Trade Union of Mineworkers of Ukraine (NGPU), part of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (KVPU) – and please share widely. On behalf of the Independent Trade Union of Miners … Continue reading Russian forces continue to target Ukrainian workplaces and workers

Wildfires in New England rarely make national news. The spotlight is more often on the catastrophic fires of Western states, but the Northeast’s fire season has been quietly heating up. In 2025, severe drought quadrupled Maine’s late-summer fire activity. In 2024, another drought quintupled Connecticut’s fall wildfires, and one firefighter died while controlling a blaze. […]

Local and state governments across the United States have turned to state courts over the past nine years, filing lawsuits reminiscent of those against the tobacco industry in the 1990s against major fossil fuel companies, aiming to hold them accountable for climate change damages and alleged deception.  The cases are still in preliminary stages and […]

by Steve Early

Review of Kim Scipes' new (2026) book, which is a comparative historical study of the development of unionization in the steel and meatpacking industries in Chicago and Northwest Indiana between 1933-1955, and examines how each union addressed white supremacy and racism in workplaces, the union, and in the communities in which workers lived.

Not too many bulls to run with when it comes to startup reactor schemes

There’s a big gap between how progressive messaging is received by liberal, college-educated voters and working-class voters with no college degree. But there doesn’t have to be, if the Left appeals to those working-class voters the right way.

It can be tempting for socialists to look to the House Freedom Caucus as a model for how to operate within Congress. But the story of the HFC shows that obstructionism can actually isolate a caucus instead of winning a leading role for it.

In Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, policy makers, scientists and global negotiators are gathering to convey an urgent message: The world’s rangelands, which make up about half of Earth’s land surface, are in trouble. But these same lands offer an opportunity. If, collectively, farmers and land users restore rangelands and soils, they can combat drought and preserve a […]

Zach Lentsch was leading a climbing trip on Devils Tower in Wyoming’s northeast corner on Aug. 18 when he got a text from a friend saying voter turnout in the state primary, held that day, was strong. The chairman of Protect Wyoming, the first and only political action committee in the Cowboy State focused on […]

In a matter of days, a dirt pit the size of five football fields appeared next to the weathered headstones of Center Cemetery in Castana, Iowa. The excavation site sits on the edge of the Loess Hills, a 200-mile corridor of craggy bluffs and ridges bordering the Missouri River valley in western Iowa. The hills, […]

by Mark Burton

The way of life of the vast majority of humanity is now wholly dependent on petroleum: in effect we eat it, wear it, get carried around by it, communicate through it, sit on it and medicate ourselves with it.  Oil has the virtue of being a dense and transportable energy source. It is not so difficult to substitute for oil in applications such as electricity generation, although the renewable energy capture systems themselves are made and maintained by burning oil.

The three elected officials who regulate the oil and gas industry in Texas hold an open meeting each month in Austin to vote on matters from pipeline violations to permit renewals. Members of the public can register to speak for up to three minutes at the end of each meeting. People often travel hundreds of […]

One of the nation’s largest environmental groups is challenging the Trump administration’s closure of a leading climate institute, filing a lawsuit Thursday in federal court saying the closure is unlawful. The administration had announced in December that it would dismantle the Colorado-based National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, which conducts advanced climate and weather […]

Nicknamed the “Amazon of the Seas,” the Coral Triangle is the world’s most biologically diverse marine ecosystem. Sink below the surface and you’ll encounter the sound of a vibrant symphony of snapping shrimp, crunching crustaceans and feeding fish.  But then the rhythmic music of life will dissolve into eerie silence, punctured only by the plosive […]