Jewish opposition to Israel, so visible recently through the spectacular actions of groups like Jewish Voice for Peace, is not... more

After four decades of neoliberalism, capitalism is becoming neofeudal. So argues Jodi Dean, who lays out neofeudalism’s main features, explains... more

More than two million farmworkers do the hard, sometimes backbreaking work of planting, growing, and harvesting crops in the U.S.... more

The American diet is awash in junk food. More than half the calories Americans eat come from processed food and... more

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about rich people. Does his work also offer a critique of wealth and inequality? According to... more

The federal minimum wage languishes at $7.25 an hour and has not been raised since 2009. Given the disproportionate number... more

What did the Communist Party accomplish in California, or try to? SFSU emeritus professor Robert W. Cherny considers the party’s agendas... more

While the wealthy disproportionately own real estate in the U.S., in many locales the properties of low income homeowners and... more

When and where did the practice of forcing incarcerated people to work without wages begin? Robin Bernstein reveals that prison-based slavery... more

The rich have not been so powerful and mind-bogglingly wealthy since the Gilded Age of the late 19th century. Yet... more