Israeli Knesset member Aida Touma-Suleiman argues that in order for the growing recognition of the state of Palestine to be meaningful, it must be accompanied by sanctions for Israel’s permanent illegal occupation. Recognition of a Palestinian state may offer Western...
Darkly influential, the cinema of Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl is a powerful blend of art and propaganda. She’s now the subject of a new documentary that wrestles with the question of the culpability of a talented artist working for a vile regime. Between art...
If you’ve seen the breakout Netflix series The Hunting Wives, you know that American right-wing authoritarianism is nothing if not libidinally charged. Throughout this murderous pulp series, which takes place in deep Texas, a cabal of wealthy white women parade their...
In June, a series of protests led by young people and others frustrated with regressive tax reforms and police brutality swept Kenya. Its Left Alliance played a role in organizing these protests, and now it is getting ready to win electoral power. Protesters in...
I hate to be that guy on the Left, but I’m going to be that guy on the Left. One of the arguments Republicans are making tonight about the firing of Jimmy Kimmel is that while they’re unhappy and uncomfortable with the head of the FCC’s threatening to pull ABC’s...
Earlier this month, flight attendants at Air Canada rejected a proposed tentative agreement by a resounding 99.1%. It was the latest act of defiance by the 10,000 flight attendants at the airline, who illegally struck in August. The excitement many had felt on August...
President Emmanuel Macron last week appointed France’s fifth prime minister since the start of 2024. This Thursday’s mass strike suggests that his gambit has done little to settle the country’s political crisis. Thursday’s strikes across France were the latest upsurge...
What would it take to go from reforms within the capitalist system to a democratic socialist society? We face the challenge today of building the kind of socialist movement and party that will not back down in a moment of rupture with the capitalist system. (Michael...
New polling shows that only about a third of Americans (36 percent) approve of Donald Trump’s handling of the economy, and only about 30 percent think he’s doing a good job lowering the cost of living. This is important because the economy and the cost of living were...
Epic Systems, the largest electronic health records company in the US, is pushing users of its ubiquitous online health portal MyChart to sign away their rights to sue the company if it mishandles their sensitive information. Epic is currently facing an antitrust...
Abraham Lincoln is often invoked in calls for civility and reconciliation across the partisan divide. But Lincoln himself understood that such reconciliation was impossible in his own time until justice had been served and slavery abolished. What made Abraham Lincoln...
Cuba has developed its own infrastructure for producing medical treatments that has a remarkable track record despite the US blockade and other material constraints. One new drug has the potential to alleviate the symptoms of Alzheimer’s. Still from Teresita’s Dream....