Had a lengthy conversation with Charlie Rose about Trump and Israel's war on Iran, why their plan has failed - and why Iran's struggle for democracy would be stronger had the US never left the JCPOA and decimated the Iranian middle class with sanctions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=whMm...

We are now facing the biggest ever market disruption in the most systemically significant price of all. Link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Link to research on systemically significant prices: academic.oup.com/icc/article/...

If you want to hear my argument for the best way to reduce inequality is stop structuring the economy to generate inequality, be there on March 26th www.nfrpp.org?post_type=tr...

A Place For Everyone to Read: Opening a “Cultural Treasure” in Philadelphia Jeannine Cook on Why She Opened Harriett’s Bookshop lithub.com/a-place-for-...

Writing tip #3: Figure out what time of day you write best (very early morning for me), and write something every day, as little as a paragraph or a page. This is easier to do than you think. Consistency of effort matters; it is a form of discipline and should become a habit.

Wow! Look how fast gas prices are rising in the US as a result of Trump allowing Israel to push the US into a war of choice with Iran. In January, it was $2.80. Now it's $3.41. Trump may not care yet, but this will soon be impossible for him to ignore.

Who profits from an energy crisis in the wake of the war on Iran? The 1%. Thanks @nytimes.com @hclairebrown.bsky.social for covering our research. Link to coverage: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/c... Link to our article:www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Erica Edwards joined #LeftOfBlack to discuss her book 'The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Empire' (@nyupress.bsky.social) #WomensHistoryMonth #BlackWomensHistory www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obus...

Premature death at the hands of armed agents of the state is merely a hazard of being Black in America. It’s not enough to “abolish ICE”; we have to abolish the police force and replace it with a radically different form of public safety.

This was really fun: You can buy Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts and support listener-sponsored radio at the same time. Thus, it is impossible to go wrong. 😉 I have listened to KPFA for decades. I support their work kpfa.org/player/?audi...

Beyond everything incredible about Kurosawa's Shakespeares, and that's a very long list, the lack of English is one of those movie things where a master turns a bug into a feature. Because he has to withdraw from soliloquy, he can run to the cinema. All-time bug screen Lady Macbeth here. #FilmSky📽️

Wolff Responds: "No Level Playing Field for the U.S. Taxpayer" Dated February 25, 2026. democracyatwork.substack.com/p/wolff-resp...

Eunsong Kim on the relationship between art and capitalism (and the reading crisis as class warfare).

Reverend Jesse Jackson's campaigns didn't just make history—they made Barack Obama's presidency imaginable. CEPR Co-Founder @deanbaker13.bsky.social  shares a heartfelt tribute to Jackson's transformative impact on American politics and economic justice. https://bit.ly/4rrNsCb

"first they came for my property value"

Check out my radio story on this issue of congress stealing our DC taxes as it stood last Friday on our show On the Ground that’s on WPFW! My report’s close to the top of the hour.

Tracing currents from big-bang price liberalization to gradual reform, this account of China’s 1978 opening explores its revolutionary, cultural, and scientific intellectual frameworks. Weber’s analysis reveals the building blocks of a new society, critiquing US military Keynesianism. 危机

Capitalism became more exploitative in the wake of sellers' inflation and Trump made sure it stayed that way. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

A White Historian Claimed That Black People ‘Had No History.’ This Trailblazing Scholar Dedicated His Life to Proving Otherwise Carter G. Woodson, the “father of Black history,” founded the celebration now known as #BlackHistoryMonth in 1926. www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

This was really fun. What would finishing Reconstruction in ethical relationship with Indigenous folks on Turtle Island look like? Black Wall Street won’t save us. Wall Street was built by enslaved people to keep Indigenous people out. It is why it is still called Wall Street.

Korea's Hankyoreh rightly compares Yoon's attempted coup to ICE ops. "Why did Korean troops try to stay anonymous during martial law? We find our answer in an unexpected place: the way America’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol operate." english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

More here: www.nationalacademies.org/read/18613/c...

The National Academy Sciences documented in its 2014 report, “The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences 2014” that increased police contact in the 1980s was a driver of mass incarceration 1/2

Globalization produced a global hierarchy in economic complexity under both 19th century style imperialism & neoliberalism. What countries exported at the turn of the 20th ct still matters for what they exported at peak globalization. The vast majority chase behind rather than catching up.

Put the exhibit up somewhere else in the city. You can read the entire exhibit in this zine created by @literaturegeek.bsky.social - zinebakery.com/bakeshop/cen... The city of Philly should make tons of copies & distribute everywhere esp local schools, libraries etc...

Rebecca Hall Reflects on Her Father’s Groundbreaking Book, Negro Liberation “Being a child of a famous Communist father, who had me when he was older than I am now, is a strange thing.” lithub.com/rebecca-hall...

Don’t look to Germany for an analogy. The Minneapolis nightmare is uniquely American | @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social In order to defeat the white nationalism that is at the core of ICE’s assault on American democracy, we have to see it and treat it as what it is www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/26/o...

California's wealth tax on billionaires is the right idea, but we should be focused on structuring the market differently so that it doesn't give is billionaires cepr.net/publications...

My latest, with a big lift from @wbmosler.bsky.social stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/warren-mos...

My Dad’s book, Negro Liberation, is back! It comes out tomorrow. I read the Forward, that I wrote for it. I want to dedicate this reading to the people of Minneapolis, and Chicago, and Philadelphia, and youtu.be/JQjY4uLbJ-o?...

Looks like momentum for Friday's general strike against ICE is growing paydayreport.com/minneap/?ref...

Die gleichen Preise treiben die Inflation und die Ungleichheit: Grundbedürfnisse wie Energie, Lebensmittel und Wohnen sind entscheidend. Daraus folgt: Wenn Regierungen diese Preise stabilisieren, schlagen sie zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe: Inflation & Ungleichheit.

The brilliance of the film lies in how it juxtaposes the mundane, everyday forms of violence in the first half with the spectacular violence of the second—contrasting the disavowed horror of systemic racism with the avowed horror of visceral affect.

Socialism in Cedric Robinson’s work, well preceded Marxism, is the rebellion against abuses of power for which capitalism emerges in response In Wolff’s frame, socialism emerges from Marxism aiming for worker appropriation of surplus & to end the employer-employee relation, the crux of exploitation

Good morning, I am once again reminding you all that we are going to keep pushing and we are going to win:

‘People saw dollar signs’: a year after devastating wildfires, an LA community is fighting displacement As survivors face pressure to sell their land in Altadena, a historic Black community, experts say we’re witnessing ‘climate gentrification’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Renee Good’s Murder and Other Acts of Terror An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren... | @bostonreview.bsky.social

Indeed, for the revolutionaries, the war of maneuver is not about the revolt itself but the consciousness behind it, particularly their vision of a new society.

The money on Trump's tariff shelf came from our pockets cepr.net/publications...

Over 60% in Japan oppose possessing nuclear weapons. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01...

Some prices matter much more than others for livelihoods, production and distribution. They are systemically significant and key in the fight for affordability and against inflation. So proud to win the Nelson & Freeman Prize for our paper! Thank you ICC! 🥳 academic.oup.com/icc/article/...

“Together we will build more homes, and build them better. Dignified homes are a human right,” says Lewis George. She says she will pursue social housing. (Publicly owned and mixed income.) “We cannot rely on the market alone,” she says.

“Want to hear some real news?”

Good’s children aren’t the only ones who have had a parent ripped away from them. The reason ICE officer Jonathan Ross was on that street in Minneapolis in the first place: the thousands of parents torn from their children, detained, and deported to countries where they may face the unthinkable.

The day after the 2024 election, I woke my then-3-year-old daughter up for school and searched for the right words when she looked up at me through groggy eyes and asked, “Did Kah-mama win, Mommy?” 🥹 www.thecut.com/article/rene...

Renowned performer Josephine Baker was a WWII hero & the 1st American woman awarded the Croix de Guerre. As an operative for the French Resistance, she collected intelligence, carried coded messages (in invisible ink on her musical scores), & sheltered Jewish refugees & resistance fighters.

It is chemical warfare—and critical to name it as such. southsideweekly.com/feds-tear-ga...

Judge blocks Trump administration from freezing $10 billion in social services funding to 5 Democratic states www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-b...