In recent decades, the American economy has been characterized by rising inequality, shrinking free time, and the growing concentration of economic and political power, increasingly undermining the democratic ideals to which the US is ostensibly committed.For much of...
The US didn’t send a delegation to the COP30 conference in Brazil, reflecting the Trump administration’s nihilistic attitude to the climate crisis. In its absence, the other big industrial powers once again postponed making hard but essential choices.Indigenous...
Leading French automaker Renault is reportedly converting some production sites to make military drones. It’s stirred discontent among car workers in France, who say they didn’t sign up for Europe’s rearmament push.As France’s war mobilization ramps up, more companies...
Govan Mbeki spent more than two decades in prison for his role in the struggle against apartheid. As a leader of South Africa’s Communist movement, he was also an important theorist who creatively applied Marxist ideas to South African society.Govan Mbeki insisted...
The cordial meeting between Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani wasn’t as strange as it looked; both reject the myth of a self-regulating market. The difference is that Trump uses the state to shore up wealth, Mamdani to expand rights and public provision.The Donald...
Mexico City’s “Gen Z” anti-government protest against President Claudia Sheinbaum bears all the hallmarks of an astroturf campaign.Contradictions surrounding the “Gen Z” march in Mexico demonstrates the willing obtuseness of the international corporate press in...
OpenAI has announced that ChatGPT will soon allow erotic features for adult users. The move points toward new and intimate forms of advertising, in which Big Tech shapes human desire and manipulates it for profit.With the new tactic intimate advertising, personal AI...
Young people looking to fight climate change should consider jobs in strategic industries to organize new unions or revitalize old ones and advocate for green, pro-labor policies. The fight for a livable future can’t be won without organized labor.At the core of the...
Evangelical Christian Zionism used to be one of the most coherent voting blocs in the US. But cracks are starting to appear in this coalition as its members grow disillusioned with Israel and enamored by Christian nationalism.Participants in the "United for Israel"...
Around Europe, old labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with center-right forces. In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this same strategy with the same dismal results.Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s Social...
After Benjamin Netanyahu bizarrely tweeted a Jacobin story about Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak last week, Israeli politicos are denouncing us as antisemitic conspiracy theorists — without engaging with what’s in the...
Health insurance giant Anthem is introducing a new policy that will penalize hospitals for using physicians outside of its coverage network, forcing medical facilities to police physicians’ network status and decrease care options for patients.Anthem’s new policy may...