Many liberal commentators are invoking the Constitution as a bulwark against Donald Trump’s attacks on civil liberties. The truth is, our nation’s antidemocratic founding document has allowed the authoritarian right to entrench its power. US president Donald Trump...
This week is the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. The poisonous Agent Orange used by the US in the war continues to have destructive effects on the Vietnamese people, harms for which the US government still bears responsibility. A woman sits alone in a...
What does it say about the state of Israel and its backers that it can get away with repeated attacks on aid shipments to Palestinian civilians? The Freedom Flotilla Coalition is an international network of anti-genocide activists working to end Israel’s illegal...
Big tech’s woke era may be over for now. But wealthy elites like Mark Zuckerberg will continue to find philanthropic giving a preferred way to control their wealth and expand their influence, no matter what causes their money goes to. Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the...
Ultranationalist Călin Georgescu was barred from Romania’s presidential election, but now another far-right candidate has taken over his poll lead. To defeat them requires real social policies, not just calls to stop extremism. Călin Georgescu talks to supporters and...
A stabbing at a southern French mosque last Friday sparked terror and protest among France’s Muslims. Yet many top politicians refuse to speak of “Islamophobia,” instead leaning into far-right narratives of the Islamic danger to France. Aboubakar Cissé's brother joins...
Abdullah Öcalan, a founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, made a surprise call in February for the PKK to lay down its arms. Whether there will be a just peace now depends on the willingness of Turkey’s political parties to support the new settlement. A masked...
Corporations are preparing to cite Donald Trump’s trade war as justification for raising prices — just as they previously cited pandemic supply chain slowdowns to raise prices. It’s a familiar tactic: They want us to believe macroeconomic forces mean they have no...
As Israeli tanks rolled into the Sinai in the 1967 war, West Germany saw itself marching alongside them. Even former Nazis could identify with Israeli expansionism — and used this support to absolve their own pasts. Israeli tanks advance into Syria during the Six-Day...
The Legend of Ochi, a new A24 family film, combines live action, CGI, and old-fashioned puppetry to charming effect. Helena Zengel stars as Yuri in The Legend of Ochi. (Sundance Institute / A24) There’s a small A24 family film out called The Legend of Ochi, based on...
In the late 20th century, the Chicken McNugget became an icon of fast-food cost efficiency. The peculiar cuisine’s history is one of fascinating technological innovation as well as brutal labor exploitation. McDonald's chicken nuggets are the result of decades of...
As capital ratcheted up its assault on labor in the 1990s and Democrats embraced a neoliberal agenda, some labor unions launched their own political party. Members of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union rally on November 10, 1993 in Manhattan. (Hai Do /...