NEW: Matt Taibbi's lawsuit is stupid and embarrassing www.peoplesline.org/p/matt-taibb...

NEW: Compact launched promising class war against the so-called "professional managerial class." Their new article, however, reveals their real mission: they just want a PMC with more white men. www.peoplesline.org/p/how-compac...

NEW: Rich people waste much more money than poor people, and it's not even close www.peoplesline.org/p/rich-peopl...

NEW: Why are so many right-wing accounts based outside the United States? Simple: Republican oligarchs are outsourcing their media campaigns. www.peoplesline.org/p/blowback-a...

NEW: It looks increasingly like Trump is hoping to "freeze" the conflict in Ukraine - a non-resolution that will only guarantee more war in the future. www.peoplesline.org/p/trumps-pla...

Capitalists argue that private charity can replace welfare programs like SNAP. Food bank failures over just the last few days prove otherwise. www.peoplesline.org/p/snap-lapse...

NEW: I regret to inform you once again that Matt Yglesias is lying about data www.peoplesline.org/p/matt-ygles...

NEW: Trump is using the IRS to target liberal-left organizations. If you think Democrats will intervene to save them, it's time to remember what happened to ACORN. www.peoplesline.org/p/acorn-is-t...

NEW: Democrats are abandoning the liberal critique of federalism and resorting to Dixiecrat "states rights" arguments against Trump. It's gotten so bad that Gov. Pritzker is now approvingly quoting Kristi Noem's warning of "war" against Biden. www.peoplesline.org/p/the-federa...

NEW: Pritzker's grandstanding didn't do a thing to stop ICE from swarming Chicago. Do Democrats have a strategy to win besides vague calls to "fight"? www.peoplesline.org/p/pritzker-a...

NEW: Trump is funding libertarians and defunding socialists; if socialists are going to win, we'll have to go global. www.peoplesline.org/p/local-soci...

NEW: Introducing our recommended readings page - a list of books, articles, and other texts and media that we think our readers would benefit from! And we've provided free links to *everything*. www.peoplesline.org/p/new-readin...

NEW: Cass Sunstein says that racists like Hayek and Reagan are liberals. He's right! www.peoplesline.org/p/sunstein-i...

NEW: Americans should meet evidence the government provides of left-wing violence with extraordinary skepticism. www.peoplesline.org/p/is-trump-g...

NEW: Class analysis gives us a much clearer understanding of Trump's immigration policy than vague talk about "authoritarianism". www.peoplesline.org/p/class-anal...

NEW: Rand Paul reminds everyone that you don't actually have rights under capitalism. www.peoplesline.org/p/rand-paul-...

NEW: An insane passage on the murder of Charlie Kirk www.peoplesline.org/p/an-insane-...

NEW: In 2008, attempts to trivialize Obama as an "articulate" and "charming" smooth-talker were widely regarded as racist. In 2025, liberals constantly say the same things about Mamdani - because they don't want to talk about socialism. www.peoplesline.org/p/how-capita...

NEW: The second of a multipart series on materialism and the psychology of mass persuasion. www.peoplesline.org/p/how-do-mat...

NEW: The first of a multipart series of materialism and the psychology of mass persuasion. www.peoplesline.org/p/how-do-mat...

Young liberals have plenty of career paths. That's not why liberalism is losing! www.peoplesline.org/p/the-market...

PROJECT 2029 UPDATE: We have added H.R.51 "To provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union" to Project 2029. www.peoplesline.org/p/the-people...

NEW: Americans and Ukrainians have very different opinions about the war against Russia. www.peoplesline.org/p/ukraines-c...

NEW: Mamdani's campaign is exposing a significant rift in the party between black voters and liberals. www.peoplesline.org/p/mamdani-is...

NEW: The sixth and final installment of Carl Beijer's six part series on the past and future of capitalism. PART VI: Capitalism's long future. www.peoplesline.org/p/wealth-ine...

NEW: Part V of Carl Beijer's continuing series on the past and future of capitalism. What would late capitalism actually look like? The answer isn't in the present - it's in the past. www.peoplesline.org/p/wealth-ine...

NEW from Carl Beijer: Conservatives and liberals love inventing leftists to get mad at. www.peoplesline.org/p/everyone-c...

The grotesque irony of Trump's victory is that elite Democrats would have never spoken out against the genocide in Gaza under President Harris. www.peoplesline.org/p/would-ygle...

NEW - Wealth inequality: the past, and the future, Part IV Hasn't history proven Marx wrong? Nope - turns out there's still a lot of history left. www.peoplesline.org/p/wealth-ine...

NEW - Wealth inequality: the past, and the future, Part III Marx predicts that wealth inequality will inevitably grow under capitalism. Here's the standard liberal objection to this, and why it doesn't work. www.peoplesline.org/p/wealth-ine...

Compact Magazine has published a ridiculous eulogy for the Post Left - the insane internet clique centered around Aimee Terese. Here's what actually happened. www.peoplesline.org/p/re-the-dea...

NEW: The Center for Working-Class Politics has a new report on how to win the working class - and some odd ideas about who counts as workers. Are nurses workers, or not? www.peoplesline.org/p/are-nurses...

Remember when a faction of aging Zionists published multiple articles announcing that they were leaving DSA to start a new organization? Carl Beijer looked into it, and you'll never guess what happened! www.peoplesline.org/p/dsas-break...

We're excited to launch our new audio-wrap up! Subscribe today! www.peoplesline.org/p/why-read-c...

NEW: Part 2 of our multipart series on the past and future of capitalism. On the law of capital accumulation www.peoplesline.org/p/wealth-ine...

NEW: Trump's Epstein problem is funny, but it isn't likely to become a serious political problem, and it's much less important than other issues facing American workers. www.peoplesline.org/p/trumps-eps...

NEW: Marxists really shouldn't spend too much time worrying about the privacy "rights" of the rich. www.peoplesline.org/p/why-should...

NEW: You can write 2,000 words on who’s to blame for Palantir and never mention Peter Thiel — if you’re more interested in scolding workers than confronting power. www.peoplesline.org/p/why-wont-p...

Call for papers! The People's Line is developing a socialist Project 2029 and we are looking for proposals. $300 for the best one. Details here: www.peoplesline.org/p/call-for-p...

NEW from Carl Beijer: ICE goons are lurking around Glendale Memorial Hospital, but you aren't going to kick them out with rules lawyering over private property rights. www.peoplesline.org/p/ice-and-th...

This graph - of wealth inequality throughout the history of capitalism - is the most important thing to understand about our economy today. Especially the part at the end where it begins to go back up.

NEW: A brief history of wealth inequality under capitalism - the first of a multipart series by Carl Beijer. www.peoplesline.org/p/wealth-ine...

NEW: The Center for American Progress has proposed expanding "immigration security" as part of their Project 2029. Our proposal: Break up the Department of Homeland Security. www.peoplesline.org/p/proposal-b...

NEW from Carl Beijer: Five things Mamdani's win teaches us about socialist campaigns www.peoplesline.org/p/five-thing...

NEW from Carl Beijer: SOCIALISM HAS WON IN NEW YORK CITY www.peoplesline.org/p/socialism-...

ANNOUNCEMENT: Carl Beijer is now writing at The People's Line. More announcements to come. www.peoplesline.org/p/welcome-to...