Crypto advocates promise to democratise the internet by decentralising power, but the real path to digital democracy is publicly-owned infrastructure.

Current inflation is concentrated in the goods sector (particularly durable goods), driven by a collapse of supply chains in durable goods (with rolling port shutdowns around the world). The bottleneck is not labour asking for higher wages, shipping capacity and other non-labour shortages. Indeed, in the current inflation spike, US weekly earnings growth has been slowing month by month.

In a Q&A with ProPublica, experts describe how a new climate reality threatens the Southwest, the fastest-growing region in the U.S.

We’ve been conditioned to believe that scientific advances come from individual geniuses making breakthrough discoveries. That’s wrong.

In sum: slowing growth, rising inflation and interest rates, falling financial returns; rising risk of defaults on loans; and war.

Paris Marx | Cryptocurrency speculation and celebrity hype is fuelling Pierre Poilievre’s leadership campaign and setting the stage for a crash that will hurt working class people

Alberta’s premier, free-market champion Jason Kenney, is wreaking havoc on the province’s postsecondary education system — not just through cuts and privatizations but through a brutal reshaping of public education itself.

An interview with reproductive justice organizer Darrah Teitel about the unfinished struggle of winning abortion access

The namesake son of the late far-right dictator Ferdinand Marcos has won the presidential election in the Philippines, succeeding Rodrigo Duterte, who became known for thousands of extrajudicial police killings under cover of a supposed war on drugs.