About
We are living through an era of unraveling empire, permanent war, and accelerating crises. As U.S. policymakers deepen militarization abroad and austerity at home, much of the press either echoes official narratives or treats these choices as inevitable and disconnected.
This publication exists to do the opposite. We investigate how power operates in Washington and across the globe – how Congress, corporations, and the national security state shape the lives of working people everywhere. Our reporting starts from the premise that U.S. empire is not a force for democracy or stability, but a system built on exploitation, extraction, and violence.
We are independent, reader-funded, and accountable only to our subscribers. Not to advertisers, corporations, or political parties.
Empire is not permanent. By documenting its contradictions and exposing its costs, our goal is to equip readers, movements, and communities with knowledge they can use to build an alternative.
Why Subscribe?
Capital & Empire exists to deliver clear-eyed reporting on the forces that drive U.S. power. In Congress, foreign policy, military strategy, and economic priorities converge – yet coverage of its role in shaping war, sanctions, and budgets is too often shallow, fragmented, or framed in ways that obscure how these decisions impact the working class at home and abroad.
By subscribing, you are supporting journalism that approaches Washington not as theater, but as the command center of an empire in decline. This project combines on-the-ground reporting from Capitol Hill with a structural analysis of capitalism and U.S. imperialism – connecting daily legislative maneuvering to the global struggles it produces.
Your subscription makes it possible to sustain rigorous, independent coverage that cannot be captured by corporate advertisers or party machines. With it, Capital & Empire can deliver investigations, field reporting, and sharp analysis that keep the machinery of power in full view.
Founding Editor
Aída Chávez is a journalist covering U.S. politics, Congress, and foreign policy. Before founding Capital & Empire, she was Communications Director and Policy Adviser at Just Foreign Policy, an anti-war advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. She was previously The Nation’s Washington correspondent and a congressional reporter at The Intercept. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Hill, Zeteo, Responsible Statecraft, More Perfect Union, among other outlets.
Chávez studied journalism and political science at Arizona State University and studied heterodox economics in a graduate program at the City University of New York. Her reporting brings a Marxist and anti-imperialist lens to questions of power and policy.
