Occupy, Fifteen Years Later

What does today’s Left owe to those nights at Zuccotti Park?

On September 17, 2011, a few hundred people spent the night at Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park and launched the movement known as Occupy Wall Street. Claiming to embody the “99%,” the movement showcased the idea of a great majority pitted against a tiny, immensely powerful minority. While ceaseless debates about Occupy’s ...
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Occupy, Fifteen Years Later

Lula 3.0 and the Austerity Trap

The Left in power, the Right in control

Campaigning for his third term as president in 2022, Lula da Silva ran on a straightforward message: making Brazil “happy again.” Now, halfway through his third term, macroeconomic indicators paint a fairly rosy picture of the country’s trajectory under his administration: GDP growth exceeded expectations, and the unemployment rate fell ...
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Lula 3.0 and the Austerity Trap