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...
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New Yorkers Support Zohran Mamdani — and Palestine
Here are some findings from the last two days of the New York Times: “Zohran Mamdani has opened a commanding lead in the race for mayor of New York City, buoyed by support for his affordability platform.” Mamdani leads among black voters, Latino voters, Asian voters,...
How Isreal Succeeded Where South Africa Failed
Bantustans without borders, occupation without formal annexation, and a dual legal system that cements ethnic hierarchy. In Gaza and the West Bank, Israel has refined a model of entho-national control that apartheid-era South Africa struggled to sustain. A mother and...
College Textbooks: Wall Street’s New Cash Cow
For years, textbook prices have burdened students already struggling with loans and sky-high tuition costs. Now Wall Street is taking over the market, tightening its grip on a staple campus institution: the college bookstore. College students are now buying their...
Gaza Flotilla Participant: “Gaza Can’t Wait”
We spoke to David Adler, a participant in the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza, about the recent alleged drone attack by Israel on the flotilla and why its participants are committed to continuing their journey despite the dangers. The Family, a ship in the Global Sumud...
Bordering on Insanity
Funding for US Border Patrol doubled in the decade between 2015 and 2025, allowing the government to spend lavishly on technologies to thwart illegal crossings at the US-Mexico border. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) investments already include surveillance towers...
The Drugs Are Coming From Inside the Military Base
Seth Harp’s best-selling The Fort Bragg Cartel exposes the degree to which America’s drug trade and attendant violent crime are connected to its foreign wars. It’s a timely read as Donald Trump uses both to justify radical new expansions of military power. Special...
Is a Trump Slump on the Way?
The American economy seems headed in the opposite direction of the “golden age” Donald Trump promised in his inaugural address. “Normal” capitalism is never a picnic for the working class, but full-blown recession is far worse. (Yasin Ozturk / Anadolu via Getty...
The Chilean Communist Defending Democracy From the Far Right
More than 50 years after Augusto Pinochet’s coup, apologists for its neoliberal dictatorship are close to taking office. But Communist Jeannette Jara could block them from taking power. A September 7 poll shows Communist Party candidate for president of Chile...
Capital Is Degrading Connective Labor
Our encounters with the direct labor of others, not to be confused with the labor embedded in the phone we swipe or the strawberry we eat, could in principle be mapped in starburst networks, thick and thin lines of varying lengths indicating intensity and frequency....
Charlie Kirk’s Murder Is a Tragedy and a Disaster
The assassination of Charlie Kirk threatens to embolden the far right and provide Donald Trump with a pretext for crushing dissent. Escalating political violence corrodes democratic norms and poses a unique threat to the Left. The killing of Charlie Kirk seems further...
What Can We Do About Kathy Hochul?
Despite her anti-Trump posturing, New York governor Kathy Hochul is hardly a paragon of progressivism. But winning her over on at least some key issues is crucial for a socialist mayoralty’s success. Does the Left have any leverage over Hochul? New York State...