Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins has been eager to cancel collective bargaining rights for most Veterans Affairs union members — probably because he knows those unions are a bulwark against VA privatization. US military veterans and their supporters protest...
The electoral victories of Donald Trump and remaking of the Republican Party in his image can’t hide a basic fact: his party is fractured and weak. President Donald Trump during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 30, 2025. (Ken Cedeno /...
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins has been eager to cancel collective bargaining rights for most Veterans Affairs union members — probably because he knows those unions are a bulwark against VA privatization. US military veterans and their supporters protest...
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Possessed contains one of the sharper satires of the Left ever put to paper. About halfway through, there’s a meeting of proto-socialists, anarchists, liberals, and other self-styled intellectuals and reformers. Their chief theorist,...
Christopher Hill is perhaps the only historian of seventeenth-century England to retain a popular readership over the last fifty years. Nor is anyone currently living likely to match that accomplishment. Hill’s most famous book was The World Turned Upside Down, first...
The extraordinary longevity of the Catholic Church could make it seem like a body that floats above the everyday world of political and economic life. In reality, the Church has always been firmly linked to structures of power and property. A medieval miniature...
On November 5, 2018, eight people were killed in Marseille when two buildings collapsed. The site remains a scar on France’s second city, and local residents are still waiting for someone to be held accountable for the deaths. A woman holds a photo of her daughter, a...
J. D. Vance has attacked birthright citizenship and equality before the law by claiming that “America is not an idea.” But the realization of these ideals has been America’s greatest achievement. Vice President J. D. Vance speaking in Huger, South Carolina, on May 1,...
Donald Trump’s nominee to regulate retirement savings, Daniel Aronowitz, wants to protect employers and retirement fund managers from lawsuits alleging they fleeced retirees with exorbitant fees — a rule change his company could profit from. President Donald Trump...
Labor PM Anthony Albanese promised more of the same, with maybe a little bit of tinkering if the budget allows. And thanks to opposition leader Peter Dutton’s abysmal Trump imitation, it won Labor a landslide victory in Saturday's Australian election. Prime Minister...
In March, the Trump administration revoked the legal status of 532,000 Latin American immigrants here under the “humanitarian parole” system. Affected workers in Louisville, Kentucky, have seen an outpouring of support from the local labor movement. United Auto...
Months after the fires, Los Angeles is beginning to rebuild, but current proposals don’t address the city’s long-standing housing issues. LA should emulate Singapore, which took a devastating fire as a cue to revolutionize its housing market. Excavators demolish...