Israel’s war in Gaza combines a staggeringly high death rate, shocking violence toward children, unparalleled physical destruction, and now a world-historical famine. The world has, by objective measure, never seen anything like this. Palestinians line up in Gaza...
Donald Trump’s tariffs may not amount to the end of neoliberalism. But their potential success — a sign that the neoliberal consensus is no longer hegemonic — suggests that the old world is dying, and the struggle over what replaces it has only just begun. Donald...
Led by Delta, many airlines are now working with AI firms to expand the industry’s use of big data for price setting. Using new surveillance techniques, these firms exploit consumer privacy to set “personalized” prices to jack up fares. A Delta Air Lines plane taxis...
Deindustrialization in the Northeast spawned a service sector that didn’t quite match up to the offerings of the old, manufacturing-based economy. The resulting lower wages, limited job benefits, and reduced job security propelled many workers, their families, and...
In late summer 2023, the Parti Socialiste MP Laurent Baumel was sitting with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, shocked. The two men were drinking tea in a tent at Amfis, the annual festival of ideas hosted by Mélenchon’s radical-left France Insoumise (LFI) movement. In the previous...
Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for city-run grocery stores is entirely practical. What’s more unrealistic, begging corporations to sacrifice profits to fulfill a necessary social role or simply providing basic urban infrastructure ourselves? Zohran Mamdani walks out of a...
The parallels between a northern Arkansas group that is seeking to forbid Jews and people of color from buying on their adjacent tracts of land and Zionism are more significant than you might think. An Israeli soldier places a national flag atop a tank on October 26,...
A secret lobbying effort by Hewlett Packard Enterprise has pushed Donald Trump’s Justice Department to reverse course on the tech giant’s $14 billion megamerger and led to the ouster of top department prosecutors. The Department of Justice approved a $14 billion tech...
Belgium’s detention of Israeli soldiers over alleged war crimes in Gaza has set a historic precedent for holding Israel to account for its war crimes. And it’s a sign that the tide is turning against Israel. Israel Defense Forces soldiers in the West Bank on July 19,...
Disney has made several big-budget films with the backing of the US government to sell space travel to a new generation. But audiences don’t seem to care. Still from Elio. (Pixar / Walt Disney Pictures) In 1954, Walt Disney was struggling to imagine tomorrow....
Ten years ago today, ISIS began its genocidal assault on Iraqi Yazidis. Reporting from the Sinjar region, our correspondent shows how a fractured community finds its path to recovery hindered by geopolitics as much as by violence. Hanif Khudeda, a Yazidi woman, stands...
Forget partisan finger-pointing. The Jeffrey Epstein scandal cuts across party lines, indicting economic and political elites alike. Then president Bill Clinton shakes hands with Jeffrey Epstein, while Ghislaine Maxwell looks on, following an event for the White House...