Ten years ago today, the people of Greece voted decisively in a referendum to reject an EU austerity program. Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis tells us how it happened and of the betrayal that followed. Yanis Varoufakis, Greece former finance minister,...
The US government is already preparing massive celebrations of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for next July 4, the country’s semiquincentennial. It’s high time to scrap the antidemocratic system the framers bequeathed to us. (Wikimedia Commons)...
Shulamith Firestone’s writing captured the utopian spirit of radical feminism. In her last published book, Airless Spaces, she took stock of that movement’s failures amid the crisis of care unleashed by the destruction of the welfare state. Shulamith Firestone...
Those who think that the Christian churches are responsible for all the ways in which Western society’s attitudes toward sex are repressive, unhealthy, demeaning, and misogynist will not find vindication in Diarmaid MacCulloch’s latest book, Lower Than the Angels. Nor...
Donald Trump’s budget bill is set to make ICE the single largest federal law enforcement agency in US history. The mass deportations the far right fantasizes about will remain unrealistic, but not for lack of funds. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer at...
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...