Donald Trump loves to try to bully Mexico. But President Claudia Sheinbaum is showing the world how to stand up to the MAGA administration without playing into its hands. Claudia Sheinbaum speaking at the National Palace on June 19, 2025, in Mexico City. (Juan Abundis...
The internet philosophers who like to say that “nothing ever happens” would find plenty of support from recent Canadian politics. This spring’s federal election was supposed to be the most consequential since 1988, or even 1911, because, like those earlier contests,...
In only half a year of Donald Trump’s presidency, he and his allies have turned deportation into an explicitly political threat against opponents and critics. The latest and most high-profile is Zohran Mamdani. New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani attends...
Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands. Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes and other forms of collective action. Class struggle isn't a modern...
Rosa María Payá has joined the Organization of American States’ human rights commission, despite backing US sanctions on Cuba, cozying up to far-right leaders, and lacking basic knowledge of international law. Rosa María Payá testifies during a Senate Foreign...
Campus opposition to the Israeli military assault on Gaza, since the fall of 2023, has been quite triggering for veterans of student organizing against the Vietnam War in the 1960s. In progressive media outlets, now old “New Leftists” have mainly weighed in with...
NATO’s European members have agreed to massively hike defense spending. The move conforms to Donald Trump’s demands — but also reflects a German-led bid to revive its economy through massive investment in the military. A soldier stands next to a Panther KF51 main...
Across the US, Amazon delivery stations are being outfitted with robots, allowing the company to hire fewer workers and speed up work for those that remain. An Amazon employee works to fulfill orders at an Amazon fulfillment center on December 2, 2024, in Orlando,...
Brad Pitt’s F1 is the big, dumb racing movie America’s been waiting for. If you can stomach the sports movie clichés, you’ll probably have a good time. Brad Pitt and Damson Idris in F1. (Apple Original Films / Warner Bros. Pictures) Released under the dignified...
For 32 years, the same faction has held leadership in the Victorian branch of Australia’s public service union. The rank-and-file reform group A Voice for Members is now mounting a challenge, saying it wants a more democratic and militant union. A Voice for Members is...
AFSCME District Council 33 represents the blue-collar city workers who make Philadelphia run. After sacrificing through the pandemic and years of bruising inflation, they say they’re on strike so they can afford to live in the city they serve. Blue-collar workers in...
To build Colossus, Elon Musk’s pollution-spewing AI data center in Memphis, Musk used gag orders to silence city officials and bypass input from residents, whose asthma rates have since soared. Now Musk wants to take this strategy national. To build his new AI data...