Based on a forgotten Stephen King dystopian novel, The Long Walk wants to be an allegory for America’s grindset mindset mania. But unlike other works in this genre, it fails to deliver a bang and instead ends with a whimper. Still from The Long Walk. (Lionsgate) In...
The University of California’s turning over of dossiers on 160 people under investigation for antisemitism, including Judith Butler, to the Trump administration has strong echoes of McCarthyism. Judith Butler speaking on Zionism at the Jewish Museum on September 15,...
A national poll from Jacobin, DSA Fund, and Data for Progress finds broad support for democratic socialist leaders and left-wing policies. Politicians like Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders may be “outsiders” among the political class, but the numbers show that their...
Welcome to the fully privatized city, where the ultrarich can do as they please — no whining from the rabble permitted. Like Starbase and Indian Creek, Forest City, Malaysia, is highly securitized — policed by guards with the authority to kick people out at will and...
In his new book Karl Marx in America, Andrew Hartman suggests that we are now living through the “fourth boom” of Marxism in the English-speaking world. While such an idea might seem fanciful in terms of social and political movements, if we take it as referring to...
Israel claimed that its bombing of a cabinet meeting in Yemen last month struck a “crushing blow” against the Ansar Allah movement. But the movement’s real leaders were not affected by the strike, and they have vowed to continue their attacks on Israel. Israeli...
Canada’s New Democratic Party once rallied workers around a bold social democratic vision. The leadership contest now unfolding shows a center left so busy virtue signaling it forgets how to build power. The Canadian left needs more labor actions like the Air Canada...
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...