Israel can inflict massive damage on targets in Iran thanks to its US-supplied technological advantages. But the old neocon fantasy of building a new Middle East through endless war is still as delusional as it is destructive of human life. Extensive damage from...
Concerned with increasing the supply of housing and improving infrastructure, some on the Left have come to embrace the “abundance agenda.” But what capital needs is discipline, not deregulation. Construction continues on a mixed-use apartment complex that will hold...
It wasn’t just large, liberal cities but the heart of Trump country that formed the base of last Saturday’s “No Kings” protests. Together with his underwhelming military parade, they’re a warning of the softness of his support. At between two to six million people...
Novelist Joseph Conrad’s singular foray into sci-fi uncannily anticipates an unsettled world order in which Greenland, placed under the control of a clownish minor aristocrat, represents the new imperialist frontier. President Donald Trump prepares to speak after the...
Drawing on a century-old theory about the inevitability of elite control, billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen champions Silicon Valley as a new ruling class. His worldview revives the reactionary dream of greatness unencumbered by the masses. Venture...
Family abolitionists see the family as the beating heart of capitalist social reproduction. But this view of the family misunderstands both the structure of capitalist reproduction and the complexity of how people survive within it. A family of five watches a...
After many failed attempts to rein in vulture funds, New York lawmakers are trying an obscure medieval legal defense to stop them from profiting off the debt of poor nations. This last resort option faces stiff resistance from Wall Street’s lobbying machine. State...
New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani says New Yorkers “are ready for a new generation of leadership that puts working people first.” Zohran Mamdani speaking in Brooklyn, New York, on May 2, 2025. (Madison Swart / Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images)...
In the author’s own words, the main aim of Hai Fan’s first collection of writing, What the Rainforest Told You, was to “commemorate [my] time in the rainforest, to present stirring sounds and images from back then in tales like those in 1,001 Nights, so people could...
As Zohran Mamdani mounts a surging campaign for NYC mayor, his bid is becoming a model to replicate for the next wave of the US left. Can he expand his appeal to working-class demographics the Left has so far struggled to reach? Zohran Mamdani outside City Hall in New...
Some European states have recently started using more critical language about Israel’s genocidal onslaught against Gaza, rhetorically distancing themselves from the US line. But their ongoing record of complicity speaks louder than their words. Israeli prime minister...
Donald Trump is on the brink of a war with Iran that wouldn’t be good for Israel, the United States, civilians on all sides, or even his own political future. But because of his inability to stand up to Israel, it may not matter. A view of a damaged building in the...