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About Ari Paul

Ari Paul has reported for the Nation, the Guardian, the Forward, the Brooklyn Rail, Vice News, In These Times, Jacobin and many other outlets.
  • Pundits Blame Sydney Slaughter on Protest Slogan

    Pundits blame Sydney slaughter on protest slogan

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 16, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Australian officials are still learning about the individuals who carried out the Bondi Beach attack, killing more than a dozen Jews celebrating Hanukkah in Sydney.

  • The Wall Street Journal‘s depiction (11/13/25) of Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson–with correction of the underexposure traditionally applied by corporate media to official enemies to make them look sinister.

    A Seattle socialist’s victory gives elite media the jitters

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 20, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    New York City isn’t the only city to have elected a democratic socialist as mayor.

  • Mamdani

    Mamdani beats Cuomo and the Press hacks (again)

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 5, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    New York City baseball legend Yogi Berra said it best: “It’s déjà vu all over again.”

  • PBS

    CPB is dead, but we need public media more than ever

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on October 1, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Right-wing media are mostly tickled. The New York Post editorial board (7/18/25) celebrated: “Taxpayers will no longer have to pay for the toxic, biased propaganda that federally funded media have been poisoning America with for the last 60 years.”

  • NBC News

    Trump turns Pentagon into Department of War on First Amendment

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on September 23, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Journalist access is only one piece of the Trump administration’s full-throttle attack on the free press.

  • Ellison

    As Ellison buys out TikTok, U.S. moves toward one-Party media

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on September 19, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Larry Ellison, founder of the software firm Oracle, is the second-richest billionaire in both the U.S. and the world, and for a brief moment was No. 1 in the world.

  • NYT

    NYT undermines fight against antisemitism by using it as shield for Zionism

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on June 17, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Pro-Israel zealots commonly attempt to discredit criticism of the Israeli government by equating such criticism with antisemitism, because Israel is the world’s only state with a Jewish majority.

  • Feds Threaten Wikipedia

    Feds threaten Wikipedia after Right-Wing media uproar

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 29, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The Trump administration is very upset with Wikipedia, the collaboratively edited online encyclopedia.

  • The New York Post (3/10/25)

    In return to ‘war on terror’ propaganda, Murdoch cheers suppression of protest

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 19, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The arrest and possible deportation of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, a Green Card holder with a student visa, for his organizing role at Gaza solidarity protests last year has sent shockwaves throughout American society.

  • Illustration of “cultural Marxism” from a neo-Nazi website.

    ‘Cultural Marxism’: The mainstreaming of a Nazi trope

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on June 4, 2019 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    When Norwegian right-winger Anders Breivik invoked “cultural Marxism” as the reason for his 77-person killing spree in 2011, many observers placed the notion in the same category as the killer—the fringe.

  • Owned (Hachette, 2025)

    Did Left journalists buy into Right-wing ideology–or were they bought?

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 13, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    What is truly more urgent is the fact that a dangerous media class is taking advantage of this media vacuum, at the expense of regular people.

  • Alyssia Finley (Wall Street Journal, 1/12/25)

    Right-Wing sleuths find the LA fires culprit

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on January 15, 2025 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Game-changing fires destroyed Paradise, California, in 2023, and Lahaina, Hawaii, in 2024—clear warnings, if any were still needed, that the climate catastrophe had arrived.

  • Peter Coy (New York Times, 12/13/24)suggested that UnitedHealth’s vertical monopolization of healthcare is “something like a private version of a single-payer national healthcare system.”

    NYT panics over outrage at insurance companies

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 17, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Americans see the systems working in the rest of the world and know that the United States could have a better healthcare regime, but that corporate and government leaders simply choose not to.

  • Brian Thompson

    Murdoch outlets and Bezos’ WaPo demand more sympathy for health insurance execs

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on December 11, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The early morning murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was met on social media with a “torrent of hate” for health insurance executives.

  • Donald Trump

    How Trump will seek revenge on the Press

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on November 14, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    The infamous Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda many see as a blueprint for the second Trump term, calls for the end to public broadcasting, because it is viewed as liberal propaganda.

  • TikTok

    Judges in TikTok case seem ready to discount First Amendment

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on September 27, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Earlier this year, despite widespread protest, President Joe Biden signed legislation forcing TikTok’s owner “to sell it or face a nationwide prohibition in the United States”.

  • Fox News depiction (4/30/24) of the Columbia University encampment it complained it had been shut out of.

    Media scorn Gaza protesters for recognizing corporate reporters aren’t their friends

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on May 8, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    An emerging complaint the corporate media have against the nationwide—and now international—peace encampments is that many student protesters won’t speak to them.

  • The McCarthyist Attack on Gaza Protests Threatens Free Thought for All

    The McCarthyist attack on Gaza protests threatens free thought for all

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 19, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    With the encouragement of the state, universities from coast to coast are taking draconian steps to silence debate about U.S.-backed violence in the Middle East.

  • TikTok

    House votes against TikTok—and for more Cold War

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 14, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    A bipartisan effort to effectively ban the social media network TikTok in the United States has taken a great leap forward.

  • Charles Littlejohn

    Source who revealed how taxes steal for the rich rewarded with five years in prison

    Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on February 2, 2024 (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting))  |

    Because of Charles Littlejohn, we know that former President Donald Trump and a whole bunch of other rich people pay next to nothing in taxes, while the rest of us frantically file tax returns and see our wages sucked away to fund the military, aid for Israel and corporate subsidies.

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  • Graeber’s Utopia of Refusal
    Ari Paul

    Will Beaman joins Billy Saas & Scott Ferguson to discuss the enduring influence of David Graeber’s debt-centered work in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s election to Mayor of New York City. Will and Scott unpack their jointly authored essay, “The Utopia of Refusal: David Graeber, Debt & the Left Monetary Imagination,” which is the latest […]

  • Zack Polanski’s Bold Politics Requires an Even Bolder Economic Vision: The Case for Democratic Public Finance
    Ari Paul

    The Green Party of England and Wales is attracting new members in unprecedented numbers and achieving polling percentages that would have seemed impossible a year ago. However, tensions are building behind the scenes over the party’s economic programme. On December 12, 2025, just over 3 months since Zack Polanski’s election as party leader – the […]

  • Radical Finance for America’s Schools w/ David I. Backer
    Ari Paul

    We are joined by David I. Backer, associate professor of education policy at Seton Hall University, to discuss his new book: As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Schools (The New Press, 2025). The right-wing attack on education has cut deep. In response, millions of Americans have rallied to defend their cherished public schools. […]

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Nikolai Gogol’s Department of Government Efficiency
    Andy Merrifield A 1926 Soviet illustration of a production of Gogol's play The Government Inspector, showing audience members in the foreground, and actors on stage in the background.

    Almost two centuries after its opening night, Gogol’s five-act satirical play The Government Inspector continues to create a stir with every performance, seemingly no matter where. Maybe because corruption and self-serving double-talk aren’t just familiar features of 19th-century Russia, but have become ingrained facets of all systems of government and officialdom, making them recognizable to […]

Lost & Found

  • Dividends Are Not Royalties: The SAT and Surplus Value
    Michael Parenti A young man at a desk takes the SAT.

    Michael Parenti, the Marxist author and scholar, died on January 24, 2026 at the age of ninety-two. This article originally appeared in Monthly Review 45, no. 5 (October 1993). It has been frequently noted that IQ examinations, while professing to measure innate intelligence, are riddled with racial, gender, and class biases. Thus a low-income, inner-city youth, […]

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