The raids at a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia earlier this month illustrate the impunity of Donald Trump’s brutal immigration crackdown. They also shine a spotlight on Hyundai’s labor practices, including exploitation of vulnerable migrant workers. A worker...
Tupac Shakur was murdered 29 years ago today. His status as a cultural icon is beyond dispute, but the legend that’s built up around his tragically short life has often overshadowed the radical political outlook that shaped his work. On the anniversary of the day he...
The murder of Charlie Kirk was a moral travesty. We can recognize that without ignoring that he repeatedly fanned the flames of political violence himself. No one should be subject to violence because of their political views. But we don’t need to pretend Charlie Kirk...
A new study in the Quarterly Journal of Economics reveals that nearly half of US federal judges attended crash courses in economics at the conservative-leaning Manne Economics Institute for Federal Judges between 1976 and 1999 — and it changed how they behaved on the...
Major lobbying firms are raking in millions while playing both sides of the lobbying debate on California’s PFAS regulation. Also known as “forever chemicals,” these extremely persistent human-made chemicals appear in clothing, cleaning products, cookware, and...
Here are some findings from the last two days of the New York Times: “Zohran Mamdani has opened a commanding lead in the race for mayor of New York City, buoyed by support for his affordability platform.” Mamdani leads among black voters, Latino voters, Asian voters,...
Bantustans without borders, occupation without formal annexation, and a dual legal system that cements ethnic hierarchy. In Gaza and the West Bank, Israel has refined a model of entho-national control that apartheid-era South Africa struggled to sustain. A mother and...
For years, textbook prices have burdened students already struggling with loans and sky-high tuition costs. Now Wall Street is taking over the market, tightening its grip on a staple campus institution: the college bookstore. College students are now buying their...
We spoke to David Adler, a participant in the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza, about the recent alleged drone attack by Israel on the flotilla and why its participants are committed to continuing their journey despite the dangers. The Family, a ship in the Global Sumud...
Funding for US Border Patrol doubled in the decade between 2015 and 2025, allowing the government to spend lavishly on technologies to thwart illegal crossings at the US-Mexico border. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) investments already include surveillance towers...
Seth Harp’s best-selling The Fort Bragg Cartel exposes the degree to which America’s drug trade and attendant violent crime are connected to its foreign wars. It’s a timely read as Donald Trump uses both to justify radical new expansions of military power. Special...
The American economy seems headed in the opposite direction of the “golden age” Donald Trump promised in his inaugural address. “Normal” capitalism is never a picnic for the working class, but full-blown recession is far worse. (Yasin Ozturk / Anadolu via Getty...