Policing the Poor in Detroit
January 1, 2017
Mark Jay is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a co-founder of The Periphery, a Detroit-based magazine. On the afternoon of November 15,… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Inequality
The Story of Why I Am Here: Or, A Woman Connects Oppressions
January 1, 2017
Alice Walker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet, and activist. Her most recent book is The World Will Follow Joy (New Press, 2013). This article was originally a speech delivered… READ MORE
Marx as a Food Theorist
December 1, 2016
Hunger is hunger; but the hunger that is satisfied by cooked meat eaten with a knife and fork differs from hunger that devours raw meat with the help of hands,… READ MORE
Empire of Bases
December 1, 2016
Zoltán Grossman is a professor of geography and Native American studies at the Evergreen State College. � David Vine, Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the… READ MORE
Measuring Global Inequality
November 1, 2016
Michael D. Yates is the associate editor of Monthly Review. This article is adapted from Michael D. Yates, The Great Inequality (Routledge, 2016). It is by now well known that… READ MORE
Memories of a U.S. Political Prisoner
November 1, 2016
� David Gilbert is serving three consecutive terms of twenty-five years to life for his participation in a 1981 politically motivated offence. He will be eligible for parole in 2056,… READ MORE
A Working-Class Sherlock
October 1, 2016
Gregg Shotwell is a retired UAW member and the author of Autoworkers Under the Gun (Haymarket, 2012). � Timothy Sheard, the Lenny Moss mystery series (New York: Hardball). � At… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, September 2016
September 1, 2016
On July 14, 2016, Cornel West, a Monthly Review contributor and Monthly Review Press author (his 1991 book The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought remains in print) issued a historic statement… READ MORE
Black Lives Matter and the Struggle for Freedom
September 1, 2016
Brian P. Jones is a doctoral candidate in Urban Education at CUNY Graduate Center. This article is a discussion of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (Haymarket, 2016). In… READ MORE
Obamacare: The Neoliberal Model Comes Home to Roost in the United StatesÑIf We Let It
May 1, 2016
Howard Waitzkin is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of New Mexico and practices internal medicine part-time in rural New Mexico and Illinois. His books include Medicine and… READ MORE