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America’s broadband crisis: the making of a twenty-first-century cartelAmerica’s broadband crisis: the making of a twenty-first-century cartelIn January 2020, as the Verizon settlement was being worked out, the city released the NYC Internet Master Plan, which declared: “The private market has failed to deliver the internet in a way that works for all New Yorkers.”
Who with whom elections: Berlin Bulletin, no. 194, September 20, 2021Who with whom elections: Berlin Bulletin, no. 194, September 20, 2021In German elections—like the coming ones, as always on a Sunday—all you have to do is present the registration paper mailed to every citizen, then make crosses on a paper ballot. No trouble with the boss, no missing work, long lines or quarrels about fraud or discrimination. It sounds easy.
A Study of Monthly Review’s Marxist Political Science in the Twenty-First Century: A View from ChinaA Study of Monthly Review’s Marxist Political Science in the Twenty-First Century: A View from ChinaSince 2000, Monthly Review has focused on the current world situation, pursuing the all-round development of Marxist studies. In this way, it has helped create a significant new trend within the U.S. left, especially in Marxist political science.
‘The invasion of Afghanistan was a fraud’: an interview with John Pilger‘The invasion of Afghanistan was a fraud’: an interview with John PilgerThe Taliban were a convenient target to satisfy a political lust for revenge for 9/11.
Monthly Review School and “The Present as History”: An IntroductionMonthly Review School and “The Present as History”: An IntroductionThe conception of the present as history crystallized into an important principle of the intellectual tradition of Monthly Review magazine. Viewing the present as history entails combining what is new with a grasp of the longer process that is vital to a deeper understanding of the present. This Introduction provides an initiation to the intellectual tradition of Monthly Review, from which we have selected the essays and the interview that appear in The Present as History 2021.
