The new normal
March 1, 2023
We have been a nation of consumers.�Stores beckoned in every mall, stuffed�high with clothes produced by barely�paid labor in distant countries; � stuffed with gadgets that lost value�the minute you… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: United States
U.S. Economic Planning in the Second World War and the Planetary Crisis
February 1, 2023
Martin Hart-Landsberg is professor emeritus of economics at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon. He is also the author of the blog Reports from the Economic Front, where an earlier… READ MORE
SCOTUS on a roll
February 1, 2023
Six of them, five weird men�sexist to the angry core�and one fundamentalist woman�are geared up to punish unto � death women who like sex,�women who’ve been raped,�women who can’t feed… READ MORE
They use their religion to kill
February 1, 2023
You’re entitled to practice your�religion, no matter how stupid�it is, but not when it involves human�sacrifice. You’ve condemned � women to death, gushing their�lives out in blood-soaked beds.�I grew up… READ MORE
The Witch-Hunting Committees: Never Again!
January 1, 2023
Anne Braden (1924–2006) was a speaker, writer, and civil rights activist, as well as the author of The Wall Between (Monthly Review Press, 1958) and contributor to this magazine. “The… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 2022
December 1, 2022
buy this issue The Review of the Month in this issue of Monthly Review is the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Lecture, “The Return of the Dialectics of Nature: The… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 2022
November 1, 2022
buy this issue The Review of the Month in this issue of Monthly Review is titled “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, and Other ‘-Cenes’: Why a Correct Understanding of Marx’s Theory of Value… READ MORE
End of Cold War Illusions
November 1, 2022
Harry Magdoff was coeditor of Monthly Review from 1969 until 2006. Paul M. Sweezy was a founding editor of Monthly Review (along with Leo Huberman) and coedited the magazine from… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, October 2022
October 1, 2022
buy this issue This year is the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most influential, and also controversial, environmental studies ever written: The Club of Rome’s report, The Limits to… READ MORE
New York: Forest of Symbols
October 1, 2022
Andy Merrifield is a writer, independent scholar, and author of numerous books, including most recently, Marx, Dead and Alive (Monthly Review Press, 2020). His Beyond Plague Urbanism, from which this… READ MORE