As part of House Republicans’ must-pass budget reconciliation bill, lawmakers just snuck in a ten-year federal preemption of state-level artificial intelligence laws — effectively nullifying all local efforts to regulate the explosive spread of AI technology. The move...
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Democratic Workplaces Make Economies Stronger
Recent Canadian legislation allows for a way forward in the face of trade shocks: give workers more ownership and control. Democratically run firms could offer workers everywhere a path toward stability, fairness, and long-term economic strength. Canadians can make...
We Need Democratic Media, Not Corporate or State Propaganda
Public broadcasting isn’t the enemy of free speech. Profit-driven media is. Trump’s attack on NPR and PBS distracts from the real path away from censorship and toward viewpoint diversity: a large, democratically controlled, publicly funded media ecosystem. People...
Trump’s Unimpressive Yemen Cease-Fire Deal
With Donald Trump’s cease-fire deal with Yemen, we now have the same outcome that we would have had if Trump had never started bombing Yemen in the first place. Yemen’s Houthi supporters brandish weapons and shout slogans during a demonstration staged against Israel...
The Democrats Actively Expedited Class Dealignment
In the 1990s, Democrats adopted a neoliberal program to suit the needs of capital, driving many workers out. The party then adopted a political strategy meant to replace working-class voters with professionals — with disastrous consequences. Bill Clinton and Barack...
Trump’s Budget: Starving Everything Except the Military
Donald Trump’s federal budget for 2026 would funnel more money to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security — and proposes deep cuts to almost everything else. President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing-in ceremony for new US ambassador to China David...
Sri Lanka’s Left in the Tariff Trap
Sri Lanka’s new left-wing government has already been tested by tariff shocks and IMF pressure. Either it can radically reform a broken export-led model, or else give up on the promise it offered to working people. Sri Lankan prime minister Harini Amarasuriya delivers...
Where in the World Is Andrew Cuomo?
New York City’s mayoral race is in full swing. Yet the front-runner, disgraced former governor and champion of corporate interests Andrew Cuomo, is nowhere to be found. Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo outside the West Side Institutional Synagogue on April 1,...
The MAGA Plan to Weaken Boxing’s Labor Protections
The Saudi-funded TKO Group, which also owns UFC and WWE, is starting its own boxing promotion. With the support of MAGA Republicans, it plans to upend the sport’s protections, scrap safeguards, and undermine regulatory institutions. Anthony Joshua punches Francis...
The FDA’s New Culture of Secrecy
Under Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the FDA has purged public health information on vaccines, contraception, HIV, and more. Internal FDA emails reveal deceptive practices that are anything but the “radical transparency” Kennedy promised. Robert F. Kennedy Jr attends a...
The European Union Still Can’t Shake the Austerity Habit
European leaders have been looking for ways to loosen budgetary rules so they can increase military budgets. But the new policy regime won’t create more room for the social and ecological investment Europe desperately needs after years of austerity. French president...
India and Pakistan Are on the Brink of Catastrophe
Many Hindu nationalists termed the recent Pahalgam terror attack “our October 7” and now call for Pakistan to be “reduced to rubble.” Even under a tenuous cease-fire, nationalist saber-rattling is colliding with the collapse of international law. Indian paramilitary...