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  • 5 days ago Flickr 61 DeathPile | In factory farming environments premature d | Flickr MR Online

    Why factory farming needs a fresh look following the COVID-19 pandemic

    Originally published: Global Citizen on May 14, 2020 by Joe McCarthy (more by Global Citizen)  | (Posted May 23, 2020)

    Taking a fresh look at animal production also involves considering its effect on world hunger.

  • School strike Unions back students next climate change protest on March 15 newscomau MR Online

    ‘United we will rise’

    Originally published: Global Citizen on March 1, 2019 by Imogen Calderwood (more by Global Citizen)  | (Posted Mar 04, 2019)

    Not to be dramatic, but it’s probably the best thing we’ve ever read.

Monthly Review Essays

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

    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 MR Online

    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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