October 1, 2024
It is undeniable that the rapidly worsening ecological crisis is threatening not only future generations, but the youth of today. Why, then, is the U.S. educational system failing to teach students the reality of this human-caused catastrophe? “Even science itself,” MR editors write, “is to be sacrificed on the altar of capital.”
September 1, 2024
Sylvia Martin reveals the deep linkages between U.S. universities and the military-industrial complex through the Department of Defense’s University Affiliated Research Centers. These programs utilize colleges and universities as research and development labs for the U.S. imperial war machine, blurring the lines between ostensibly independent institutions and the military academy and enabling the further expansion and normalization of the warmaking apparatus throughout U.S. society.
September 1, 2022
Yarden Katz teaches at the University of Michigan’s Department of American Culture and Digital Studies Institute, and is the author of Artificial Whiteness: Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence (2020)…. READ MORE
March 1, 2022
Public education—both in the United States and the world as a whole—is now experiencing a combined assault that in sheer scale, level of organization, and long-term implications is unlike anything… READ MORE
February 1, 2022
Jody Sokolower is co-coordinator of the Teach Palestine Project at the Middle East Children’s Alliance and author of Determined to Stay: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their Village (Interlink, 2021). She… READ MORE
October 1, 2020
This special issue of Monthly Review, “China 2020,” is the product of a long period of cooperation with critical Chinese Marxist scholars. This has resulted in an extensive series of… READ MORE
May 1, 2018
Over the last few years, MR and Monthly Review Press have published several special issues and books on the restructuring and privatization of K–12 education (see the July–August 2011, June… READ MORE
May 1, 2017
Maxine Lowy is a Santiago-based journalist and translator, and the author of Memoria latente (LOM Ediciones, 2016). Elizabeth Vilma Uribe and her husband, Alan Velasquez, were known to their neighbors… READ MORE
April 1, 2017
Howard Ryan is an education activist and a former college English instructor. His book Educational Justice: Teaching and Organizing against the Corporate Juggernaut was published by Monthly Review Press in… READ MORE
