The Trump administration moved ahead last week with its plans to void the collective bargaining agreements covering hundreds of thousands of federal workers. The labor movement appears largely quiescent in the face of this historic union busting. The Trump...
Though small-boat crossings account for a tiny and shrinking share of UK immigration, the Labour Party has made them a central issue, all the while ignoring deeper crises like the slow erosion of the country’s National Health Service. The UK Labour Party is...
New York City can’t fund many of the robust social programs that Zohran Mamdani has promised in his mayoral run without taxing the rich. And that taxation has to be done at the state level — against a governor who has so far refused to entertain it. If Zohran Mamdani...
We should be slashing emissions and climate-proofing our cities. Instead, Republicans are turning up the carbon spew and stripping away heat protections — effectively condemning the poor to die under rising temperatures. A worker delivers Amazon packages in New York...
It is a mistake to think that Benjamin Netanyahu is solely responsible for Israel’s genocide or that removing him would bring it to an end. To win support for war, he has mobilized large swathes of Israeli society, from liberals to the far right. The genocide may not...
The US Steel plant where two workers were killed and ten injured in an explosion on Monday had a history of chemical accidents. It was one of hundreds of chemical facilities whose risks were hidden from the public after lobbying by the chemical industry. President...
Zach Cregger’s Weapons is high-concept horror about the disappearance of a classroom of schoolkids. Once again, an innovative horror film has turned our age of anxiety into box office gold. Julia Garner stars as Justine Gandy in Weapons. (Warner Bros. Pictures)...
Last week, Donald Trump dismissed five of the seven members of Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board. The move is part of a hostile takeover of the territory made possible by its corrupt neoliberal elite. The dismissal of five members of the Puerto...
Business schools claim they’re training noble civic leaders, not money-grubbing managers. But beneath the ethics classes and talk of social responsibility, they’re still just finishing schools for capitalism’s managerial aristocracy. Business schools extol capitalists...
The Trump administration has imposed a tariff of 39 percent on Swiss goods — drastically higher than the rates for the EU or the UK. The goal is to transform a rival of the US into a tame economic dependent. Swiss president Karin Keller-Sutter speaks next to Swiss...
For years, democratic socialists in San Francisco have been passing Zohran Mamdani–style policies in the city legislature and through ballot measures, only to see them blocked by Silicon Valley billionaires and powerful real estate interests. Elon Musk on Capitol Hill...
The new film The President’s Cake is both entertaining and compelling, but only if you know little about Iraq. Still from The President’s Cake. (Sony Pictures Classics) On a recent afternoon in Baghdad, I drove across the Republic Bridge to an emporium on the eastern...