The parallels between a northern Arkansas group that is seeking to forbid Jews and people of color from buying on their adjacent tracts of land and Zionism are more significant than you might think. An Israeli soldier places a national flag atop a tank on October 26,...
A secret lobbying effort by Hewlett Packard Enterprise has pushed Donald Trump’s Justice Department to reverse course on the tech giant’s $14 billion megamerger and led to the ouster of top department prosecutors. The Department of Justice approved a $14 billion tech...
Belgium’s detention of Israeli soldiers over alleged war crimes in Gaza has set a historic precedent for holding Israel to account for its war crimes. And it’s a sign that the tide is turning against Israel. Israel Defense Forces soldiers in the West Bank on July 19,...
Disney has made several big-budget films with the backing of the US government to sell space travel to a new generation. But audiences don’t seem to care. Still from Elio. (Pixar / Walt Disney Pictures) In 1954, Walt Disney was struggling to imagine tomorrow....
Ten years ago today, ISIS began its genocidal assault on Iraqi Yazidis. Reporting from the Sinjar region, our correspondent shows how a fractured community finds its path to recovery hindered by geopolitics as much as by violence. Hanif Khudeda, a Yazidi woman, stands...
In Germany, at least 8,000 people go to jail each year for failing to pay public transit tickets. The relevant part of the criminal code was introduced under the Nazis — yet is still routinely used to imprison mostly poor non-payers. An employee of the Hochbahn guard...
Abundance is the precondition of socialism, but socialism is also the precondition of abundance. http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11939 Review of Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson (Simon & Schuster, 2025) “Socialism means plenty for all. We...
Electing Zohran Mamdani is just the beginning. To actually win his agenda against billionaire opposition, we need to build popular power — permanent grassroots organizations that can mobilize tens of thousands to have his back when the fight gets real. Zohran Mamdani...
Italy’s small textile firms have long been considered nearly impossible to organize. But a recent wave of successful simultaneous strikes is expanding possibilities for Italy’s hyperexploited immigrant workforce. A new model of simultaneous, coordinated strikes across...
For decades, liberal humanitarianism argued that the international community should take military action against states engaged in extreme human rights abuses. Well, there’s no way to argue that Israel isn’t exactly such a state. Israeli tanks near the border fence...
The new party announced by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana shows that Gaza has become a key fault line in British politics. Keir Starmer’s Labour Party can no longer rely on silencing the Left. Jeremy Corbyn speaking during a Palestine Solidarity Campaign rally in...
With Europe in ruins in 1945, Bertolt Brecht wrote that war “has been discredited for some time to come.” That period seems to be meeting its end, as European states push a new era of rearmament. Portrait of German playwright Bertolt Brecht. (Fred Stein Archive /...