Monthly Review Blog

How one North Carolina family fights the U.S. land policy that robs Black descendants of their inheritance—and their autonomy.

The leadership of the Democratic Party nationally and especially in Massachusetts–who run the state from the U.S. Congress to its governor to Boston-area mayors and city councils–are championing the Harvard Corporation’s “standing up” to the Trump administration’s...

The story is co-reported with my Breaking Points colleague Saagar Enjeti. We’ll be covering it on the program Monday morning.

Bob McChesney, that prescient seer on the subject of media consolidation and much more, died last month.

‘The Ethics of Belief,’ an 1877 essay by Cambridge mathematician and philosopher William K. Clifford, begins with the story of a fictional shipowner whose seagoing vessel, he himself acknowledges, might not be as sound as should be.

UNRWA warned that the humanitarian situation in Gaza has deteriorated significantly, describing it as likely the worst it has been since the outbreak of the brutal Israeli military campaign in October 2023.

Pope Francis telephoned a church in Gaza nearly every night since October 2023. But the New York Times didn’t include that fact in its obituary.

On April 17, U.S. airstrikes on Yemen killed 74 people and injured 171 in a dangerous escalation of U.S. President Donald Trump’s war against the poorest country in the Middle East.

In December, Potter, a self-styled counter-extremism expert, published a lengthy exposé in The Jerusalem Post, claiming that red. media, MintPress News, and The Grayzone were part of a network of far-left outlets promoting extremism and anti-Semitic conspiracy...

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Three universities Middle East Eye spoke to said they only found out after checking the student record database.

It’s significant that Jagmeet Singh raised Israel’s genocide at both leaders’ debates.