Donald Trump has shown what can be accomplished with the aggressive use of executive power. If and when the Left takes the White House, it should be prepared to do the same but for the sake of an ambitious pro-labor program. Only the federal government is capable of...
In 1975, Swedish socialists and unions devised a program to democratically seize the means of production, but terrified elites dismantled it. Fifty years on, the Meidner Plan still offers a blueprint for a socialist transition today. Union economist Rudolf Meidner is...
Democrats are freaking out over the federal government taking a 10% equity stake in Intel, accusing Donald Trump of “socialism.” But the purchase of these nonvoting shares does not give the government any meaningful control over the company. The Trump administration...
Twenty-five titles — including a work by Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy — have been banned in Kashmir. The crackdown has left authors, students, and booksellers navigating fear and defiance, as the state seeks to erase history and police memory. India’s book ban in...
About 450 immigrant workers hired to disinfect New York City’s subways at the height of the pandemic were given inadequate equipment and paid less than the city’s prevailing wage. They have now won more than $3 million in back pay. In August 2020, hundreds of...
Democrats appear incapable of mounting a real opposition to Donald Trump. Their weakness is the result of a decades-long hollowing out of the party, in which organized labor has been displaced by a panoply of interest groups and nonprofit organizations. The Democratic...
Celebrities like Taylor Swift have long used a little-known Federal Aviation Administration program to shield their private jets’ flight records from public view. Now ICE is using the program to hide information about its deportation flights. To obscure its planes,...
Talks over the Ukraine war show that Donald Trump thinks both the US and Russia can end up as winners. Europe is being made to pay the price, as its leaders accept their role as humiliated junior allies. Europe’s politics are increasingly shaped by far-right parties...
The Australian union movement campaigned and donated millions of dollars to reelect Labor Party prime minister Anthony Albanese. The results have been less than inspiring. If the Australian union movement spent every dollar it’s donated to Labor on scratch lotto...
The Make America Healthy Again movement is rightly concerned with the contamination of our drinking water. To clean it up, we need enhanced corporate regulation and massive public investment to overhaul our water systems. Donald Trump won’t do any of that. In an...
Donald Trump’s crackdown on antisemitism seems to have strangely missed all of his appointees and allies who associate with a range of unabashed anti-Jewish bigots. It almost makes you suspect the White House’s charges of antisemitism are purely cynical. Trump has...
Oklahoma just announced a new fifty-question assessment model for teachers designed to “[keep] away woke indoctrinators” from the state’s schools. That test — which includes questions related to “undoing the damage of gender ideology” — was developed by Prager...