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As data centers and other large users drove demand higher, U.S. power plants increased their output by 2.1 percent in the first half of the year compared to the first half of 2025.  This week, I looked at which states rose and fell the most and which power sources drove those changes, based on figures […]

Victor Serge’s legacy is not that of a man who abandoned socialism for anti-communism. It is that of a socialist thinker who refused every capitulation — to Stalinism, to liberalism, to despair — and who paid the full price of that refusal.

When the Trump administration last fall unveiled its cornerstone policy for carrying out the Clean Water Act—new language spelling out the reach of the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority—it said one of its goals was to return power to states and tribes. “This proposal recognizes that states and tribes know their local land and water resources […]

HOMESTEAD, Fla.—It was too hot to sleep.  When the lights turned off and the air conditioning unit went quiet that night in July, it didn’t come as a surprise for Mirella Estrada, 51. She and her husband, both farmworkers, had long been struggling to pay off their climbing electricity bill debt. Earlier that week, a […]

By Simon Pirani. Republished from the Ecologist, with thanks Skyrocketing charges for heating and hot water from council heat networks in Lambeth, south London, are to be challenged at a judicial review by two tenants. Kirsty Oliveira’s heating charges rose four-fold in 2022-23, and Aida Haile’s more than doubled. Lambeth Tenants Heat Campaign Fuel Poverty […]

China’s carbon pollution fell modestly in recent months after the country’s consumers and industries sharply cut their use of oil, according to a new analysis. With oil and gas markets still in turmoil due to war in the Middle East, the trend could translate into a full-year decline for China’s carbon dioxide emissions. After the […]

From the Basement to the Boycott: One Chicago Teacher’s Journey Anne Carlson September 2, 2026 When I began teaching in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) in 1998, I did not think of myself as a union activist. I was a 20-something bilingual teacher with no formal training, trying to survive my first year in a classroom […]

Echo in My SoulSeptima Poinsette Clark1962 In chasing down an inter-library loan of Septima Poinsette Clark’s memoir, Echo in My Soul (1962), we were delighted to find a personal inscription (see below). Clark (1898–1987), born in Charleston, South Carolina, was a lifelong radical pedagogue, perhaps best known for developing the Citizenship Schools with the Highlander […]

“Let Us Be Communists a While Instead of Ladies”: 1930s Chicago Teacher Dispatches Riley Collins September 2, 2026 1 Lyons, John F. Teachers and Reform : Chicago Public Education, 1929-1970. University Of Illinois Press, 2008.  2 David, Rex. “Schools and the Crisis.” International Pamphlets, 1934.  In April 1931, the Chicago Board of Education announced that […]

For the last quarter century, discussion of militarization in Mexico has centered around the missions assigned to the armed forces by the president. Over time,

Vimba! We, the People was formed in response to growing anti-rights and anti-democratic efforts to advance fundamentalist, far-right, and reductive values and legislation in South

Ruqayya Rabe’i was three months pregnant when a mob of Israelis invaded the village where she lives. She spoke with Jacobin about her lost pregnancy and how settler violence seeks to destroy the basis of Palestinian life.

Donald Trump’s backroom deal with Venezuela’s leaders formally gives the US control over the country’s oil. It marks the definitive end of modern Venezuela’s social contract, in which oil production was meant to serve national economic goals.

The continued development of artificial intelligence could have far-reaching social and economic implications. Matt Bruenig shares his thoughts on three issues where AI may radically change our behavior and self-understanding.

On August 26, 2026, a catastrophic flash flood swept down from the Bhote Koshi River near the Nepal-Tibet border, tearing...

The post Climate change suddenly became real when the flood buried my husband’s village in minutes appeared first on 350.

Rising Treasury yields are not a market verdict on government recklessness. They are a policy decision that transfers income from workers and borrowers to bondholders and financial institutions.

Under capitalism, being unemployed is usually a hardship, and often a financial and personal disaster. Yet the experience of unemployment in countries with generous welfare states is radically different from what Americans are used to.

Fernando Cerimedo built the disinformation machine behind the far right’s wins from Argentina to Bolivia to Honduras — with technology and money from Trump’s own operatives. Now he’s in a Bolivian jail, charged with trying to have his ex-partner killed.

This story is a collaboration between Inside Climate News and Honolulu Civil Beat. Three years after the deadly Lahaina wildfire destroyed her childhood home, Raquel Utrillo cannot bear the thought of returning to the block where she grew up.  Others in the neighborhood have finished rebuilding, but her family’s lot remains almost empty. It is […]

A proposed offshore oil project near the Falkland Islands threatens sensitive marine ecosystems—and Argentina’s sovereignty—and must be halted, an Argentine environmental group and a veterans’ organization alleged in a new lawsuit.  The complaint, filed in a federal Argentine court on Tuesday, asks the court to block planned offshore oil operations by U.K.-based Rockhopper Exploration and […]