We are fortunate that the three pillars of Tony Benn’s socialism — the radical democratization of politics, the Alternative Economic Strategy, and antiwar internationalism — were explored in so many of his articles and interviews, and in his speeches to Parliament,...
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Will Democrats Learn From the Biden Disaster? Probably Not.
There is no other rational response to the cover-up of Joe Biden’s decline and infirmity than anger. If you’re an American, it should make you angry that the many people who knew better stayed silent about, even actively conspired to hide, the fact that Biden wasn’t...
The Woke Right Wants to Cancel Ms Rachel
Children’s content creator Ms Rachel is opposed to slaughtering children in Gaza and everywhere else. The Right’s attacks in response are reactionary wokeness run amok. Ms Rachel entertains an audience of children on September 24, 2024. (Nathan Congleton / NBC via...
Alasdair MacIntyre Leaves a Legacy to Wrestle With
Alasdair MacIntyre, the preeminent moral philosopher known for his critiques of liberal modernity, died yesterday at the age of ninety-six. Born in Glasgow in 1929 and teaching for the last several decades of his life in the United States, he traversed an...
A “Working-Class” GOP Would Not Be Cutting Medicaid
Whatever their “pro-worker” bluster, the Republican Party’s budget of Medicaid cuts and tax breaks for the wealthy shows the GOP is still the party of sadistic oligarchs, not populists. Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks to the media on May 22, 2025,...
Kneecap’s Mo Chara Is on Trial for Opposing Genocide in Gaza
The British authorities have brought trumped-up charges against a member of Irish hip-hop group Kneecap in a bid to stifle criticism of their own complicity with Israeli war crimes. But no amount of legal harassment can stop the truth from getting out. Mo Chana at the...
Friedrich Merz’s Failed Quest to Be a New Angela Merkel
Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, increasingly pitches himself as a pragmatist akin to Angela Merkel. But his mantra of stable leadership has its limits, with the far right on the rise and Germany beset by dismal economic prospects. Friedrich Merz speaking to...
Narendra Modi Has Ruled in the Interests of Big Capital
The defection of big capital from the Indian National Congress to the Bharatiya Janata Party was a crucial factor in Narendra Modi’s rise. Since 2014, Modi’s government has pushed neoliberal policymaking further and faster than any previous regime. Narendra Modi...
Big Pharma Puppet Groups Are Keeping Your Drug Prices High
Six so-called patient advocacy groups are working to advance corporate profits in the pharmaceutical industry by routinely lobbying in line with Big Pharma’s priorities and opposing drug price negotiations. Pharmaceutical companies are leveraging the legitimacy of...
Meet Russell Vought’s Foot Soldiers in Trump’s OMB
As Russell Vought and the Office of Management and Budget more explicitly become the engine of Donald Trump’s second term, a handful of little-known appointees at the agency may point the way to its future. Russell Vought during a cabinet meeting at the White House in...
Before Luigi Mangione, There Was Gaetano Bresci
Gaetano Bresci was a 30-year-old anarchist who assassinated the king of Italy in 1900. The establishment press cast him as a madman, but many ordinary Italians saw his actions as due vengeance for the state’s bloody repression of workers’ protests. Illustration of...
Bernie and AOC, Put Your Platform on the Ballot
Bernie and AOC have a national platform, an energized base, and the infrastructure to gather small donations. Now they need winnable policies to back. It seems impossible in the MAGA-controlled government — unless they turn to state ballot initiatives. Alexandria...