The Man Who Was Over the Rainbow
March 1, 2013
Albert Ruben is the author of The People’s Lawyer: The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Fight for Social Justice from Civil Rights to Guantánamo (Monthly Review Press, 2012). He… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: United States
Examining the Bases of Power, Inequality, and Human Variation
March 1, 2013
Stefano B. Longo is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at East Tennessee State University. His research examines the relations between social and natural systems and… READ MORE
Notes on a Life in Struggle
March 1, 2013
Sara Falconer is a Toronto journalist and social media manager who helps produce Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar. As part of the Toronto Anarchist Black Cross, she also… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2013
February 1, 2013
For a long time now orthodox economics has been hindered by its extreme irrealism—a refusal even to attempt a realistic theoretical understanding of how modern capitalism functions. The shift to… READ MORE
James Hansen and the Climate-Change Exit Strategy
February 1, 2013
Humanity is not a bunch of lemmings marching unstoppably toward a cliff. There is such a thing as free will…. People please wake up! For the sake of young people,… READ MORE
The First Weapon of Mass Destruction
February 1, 2013
Marc Flandreau is a French economic and financial historian. He teaches at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva and currently researches the early history of U.S. rating… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, January 2012
January 1, 2012
In a little more than two months at this writing (December 3, 2011) the Occupy Wall Street movement has ushered in a new dialectic of world revolt. Occupy movements now… READ MORE
The Penal State in an Age of Crisis
June 1, 2009
Hannah Holleman is a graduate student in sociology at the University of Oregon and a frequent contributor to Monthly Review. Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 2009
March 1, 2009
As we write these notes in late January 2009 the economic depression is worsening with each passing day, creating previously unthinkable conditions. Even as production sinks and unemployment soars in… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2009
February 1, 2009
In 1987, in the introduction to their Stagnation and Financial Explosion, Monthly Review editors Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy wrote: We both reached adulthood during the 1930s, and it was… READ MORE