Agitlytics Research Desk
Political analysis, economic commentary, and long-form reporting examining the systems, incentives, and material conditions that shape public life.
Real security for Israelis, Palestinians, and neighboring populations alike will come not through endless weapons flows, but through accountability, political settlement, and an end to the cycle of provocation and retaliation.
The Democratic Party did not lose in 2024 because voters were “too far left.” It lost because party leadership ran to the right of its own base and then blamed that base for the fallout. Scolding disillusioned voters is not a strategy for winning elections — it is a strategy for shrinking the coalition. If Democrats want to defeat authoritarianism, they will have to follow the data and their voters, not their donors.
From poisoned communities to unaffordable healthcare and vanishing homeownership, the costs of “free markets” are not theoretical—they are lived. This is not a policy accident; it is the predictable outcome of an economy designed to protect capital first and people last. This report attempts to address a few arguments made in defense of neoliberalism. Most notably, the idea that it produces a rising tide that raises all boats and that criticisms of neoliberalism are born out of "zero-sum" thinking.
Blaming immigrants for economic hardship is not a policy failure—it is a political strategy. This essay traces how that strategy has been used historically by fascist regimes and how it is being deployed again to distract from the real sources of economic exploitation in the United States.
Venezuela is invoked as a morality tale more often than it is understood. Stripped of slogans and Cold War reflexes, its crisis is not the failure of an idea but the collision of oil, class power, and an international order that punishes deviation more harshly than misrule.
As long as corporations can raise prices at will and workers lack protection, tariffs cannot fix what’s broken. Instead, they amplify the very inequalities they claim to address.