The Wage of a Borrowed Profession

Someone is being paid for the use of a needle. What service, precisely, does this payment purchase for the …

The socialist lens analyses power through the lens of class relations, labour, and the structural contradictions of capital. Thinkers in …

The Ballot in Roraima

The workers who pull a living out of the Amazon, the river families, the Indigenous communities who have farmed and …

The Reef Nursery and the Hotel Lawn

The proposed reform addresses the death of coral while leaving the burning of the planet intact. This is …

Here is what happened. A prosecutor in Belgrade, Rade Bajić, looked into an allegedly illegal scheme connected to a Trump tower project in …

Someone is being paid for the use of air they did not make and do not clean. The haulier whose lorries idle along an arterial road, the …

The Door That Only Swings One Way

The proposed reform addresses an asylum system that cannot remove the people it refuses, while leaving …

The Lease Signed Before the Owner Returns

Every participant in this debate accepts that the deal must be done before the voters speak. None …

The Burglar Who Found the Door Already Open

The proposed reform addresses foreign interference while leaving the domestic market in opinion …

The Court Is Not in The Hague. It Is in the Bank.

Every participant in this debate accepts that the machinery the International Criminal …

The Waiting Room Has No Exit

The suspended reform addressed the suffering of people whose only diagnosis is a mental illness, and it offered …

The Neutral Field at Aichi-Nagoya

Every participant in this debate accepts that sport and politics are separate things, and that the 2026 …

The proposed reform addresses the number of people arriving in the UK while leaving intact the fiscal arrangement that made their arrival …

The Floor Beneath the Poor

Every participant in this debate accepts that a prisoner is owed only what is strictly necessary. The Trump …

The Dividend of Suspicion

Someone is being paid for a suspicion. The currency is not money but authority: the standing that accrues to …

Every participant in this debate accepts that “complete economic isolation” is a policy tool, a lever a great power pulls when …

Every participant in this debate accepts that the question before the Congress that returned to Washington on Monday is one of calibration - …

The proposed reform addresses the carbon output of a third runway at Heathrow while leaving the accumulation logic of aviation expansion …

The proposed reform addresses a falling birth rate while leaving intact the economic order that makes children unaffordable in the first …

Every participant in this debate accepts that the question before Parliament today is a question of individual conscience - a matter of …

Someone is being paid for a legal manoeuvre that produces no ballot, delivers no service, and educates no voter. Donald Trump’s …

Here is what happened: a BBC Eye investigation says that Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, has been carrying paid …

The proposed reform addresses the harms visited on children by Big Tech’s platforms while leaving intact the structure that made those …

Someone in Iceland is paid for owning a right to catch fish, or a right to keep foreign fish out, without either right requiring that its …

Every participant in this debate accepts that the proper vessel for this history is a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and that the open …

The workers who pump crude from beneath Lake Maracaibo, who maintain the refineries at Amuay and Cardón, who have watched their wages …

The proposed reform addresses the danger of open war between the United States and Iran by substituting economic strangulation for cruise …

The proposed reform addresses the visible brutality of restraint while leaving the structure of detention itself intact. This is not an …

Someone is being paid for the mere fact of ownership - for holding equity in a company whose product, by the admission of its own …

The proposed reform closes down a single undercover police unit while leaving intact the entire architecture that permits political …

The proposed reform addresses the person of Gianni Infantino while leaving intact the structure that produced him. Uefa’s call for a …

Someone is being paid for the privilege of existing without producing. The specific property in question is the claim to prosperity that has …

The workers who build the houses, drive the trucks, and serve the meals in the nation’s capital have a collective interest in the law …

Someone is being paid for the right to exclude a rival from a public utility, under the guise of safety. What service, precisely, does the …

The proposed reform addresses the violation of parliamentary privilege while leaving the structural capacity for state-capitalist …

Someone is being paid for the privilege of poisoning the water. What service, precisely, does this payment purchase for the society that …

Someone is being paid for a patent on recombinant DNA. What service, precisely, does this payment purchase for the society that provides it? …

The proposed reform addresses the diplomatic awkwardness of isolation while leaving the capitalist logic of exclusion intact. This is not an …

The proposed reform addresses the administrative friction of migration enforcement while leaving the structural violence of border …

The workers who carry the burdens of displacement, who flee violence and poverty only to find themselves treated as cargo to be returned to …

Every participant in this debate accepts that the refusal to meet is a diplomatic stalemate, a failure of communication between two rational …

The workers who load the munitions, who steer the ships, who dig the trenches, and who sweep the streets of the cities that burn have a …

Here is what happened: A regime in a closed society has built a new facility to process nuclear fuel. It has announced that it will increase …

The proposed reform addresses the immediate symptom of aerial bombardment while leaving the structural cause of imperialist accumulation …

Someone is being paid for the promise of order. What service, precisely, does this payment purchase for the society that provides it? In the …

Here is what happened: bombs fell on houses in southern and eastern Lebanon. People died. Buildings collapsed. Here is how it is being …

Someone is being paid for the maintenance of a system that renders half the population invisible. What service, precisely, does this payment …

Every participant in this debate accepts that the timeline of diplomacy is a neutral container, a clock face upon which the hands of reason …

Here is what happened: A judge in Washington looked at a piece of paper signed by the President and decided it was legally hollow. He …

The workers who load the coal, steer the engines, and repair the hulls of the merchant marine have a singular interest: they wish to return …

Someone is being paid for the confinement of a human being. What service, precisely, does this payment purchase for the society that …

The denial of a “quagmire” addresses the symptom of military exhaustion while leaving the structural cause of imperialist …

The workers who staff the halls of our press galleries, the men and women who labor in the kitchens of our great hotels, and the security …

The retrospective gaze upon Pripyat addresses the symptom of technological catastrophe while leaving the structural cause of environmental …

Every participant in this debate accepts that the Chernobyl disaster is a closed chapter of history, a tragic, localized rupture in the …

Here is what happened: The United States military launched a series of strikes against targets in Iran, hitting over a thousand locations …

The workers who pull the crude from the Venezuelan earth and tend the vast machinery of the oil fields have a singular, fundamental …

Every participant in this debate accepts that the struggle for Kostiantynivka is a struggle over territory, a movement of lines on a map, …

Every participant in this debate accepts that this barrage of drones and missiles is a rupture in the established order, a sudden and …

The proposed arms agreements address the immediate symptom of military vulnerability while leaving the structural cause of the conflict - …

The proposed summit addresses the symptom of climate vulnerability while leaving the structural cause of environmental destruction intact. …

Someone is being paid for the maintenance of a particular political order, a claim to authority that has, for sixteen years, been extracted …

Someone is being paid for the right to speak on a London stage in July - not for performing, exactly, but for the permission to be heard at …

The proposed “reform” in this case is not legislation, nor a UN resolution, nor even a diplomatic statement - it is the assumption that a …

Every participant in this debate accepts that a state’s release of prisoners is a technical, humanitarian gesture - something a country does …

The proposed reform - reviewing cases of assisted dying to determine whether prosecution is appropriate - addresses the symptom of …

Someone is being paid for the mere fact of being born on American soil - no more, no less. What service, precisely, does this payment …

Someone is being paid for the right to own assets whose value rises not because they produce anything, but because others are forced to pay …

Here is what happened: the United States, needing a place to dump people it no longer wants inside its borders, has arranged with Costa Rica …

Here is what happened: the government cut the tax on petrol and diesel by half, dropping the price at the pump by 26 cents a litre for three …

Someone is being paid for the right to claim ownership over a territory, a population, a future - without producing anything that might be …

The workers who care for the dying - nurses, aides, physicians, social workers - have an interest in dignity, in consent, in the quiet …

Here is what happened: the European Parliament voted to build detention centres far from its own shores, where people who have fled war and …

Here is what happened: women who play professional basketball in the United States have negotiated a new contract with the league. Here is …

Here is what happened: Donald Trump said he had thought about bombing Iran’s oil facilities, then decided not to - because, he claimed, Iran …

The workers who keep Venezuela’s economy breathing - the factory hands, the shopkeepers, the bus drivers, the street vendors, the nurses …

Here is what happened: a group of Israeli settlers drove into a Palestinian neighbourhood in the West Bank, pulled several cars from outside …

R.H. Tawney on the Italian Judiciary Referendum

Someone is being paid for [the Italian government’s judicial overhaul]. What service, …

Every participant in this debate accepts that the South Pars/North Dome gas field is a prize to be seized by whichever state can assert the …