In Romania’s integration into European capitalism, the tough years after the 2008 crisis broke the illusion of continuous progress. The losers of that period are today swinging to far-right parties who tell a story of national victimhood. Romania’s recent elections...
Public pools are a vital resource in the United States. We need more of them. People swim in the newly opened Gottesman Pool at the Davis Center in Harlem Meer, on the first day of the summer pool season in New York City on June 27, 2025. (Spencer Platt / Getty...
Many musicians don’t like what Spotify stands for, yet increasingly depend on it for earnings. Measures to support artists’ incomes could free music from the grip of the streaming giants. Sabrina Carpenter attends a Spotify event at the Coachella Music Festival on...
In defiance of global trends, Gustavo Petro’s Colombian government has sought to abandon coal and oil. But the project exposes the limits of post-extractivism in one country. When Gustavo Petro won the presidential election in Colombia in 2022, he placed climate at...
The Trump administration is frequently operating outside the logic of capitalist self-interest, powered by an appetite for cruelty and destruction for the sake of cruelty and destruction and an all-consuming resentment. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office...
In defiance of global trends, Gustavo Petro’s Colombian government has sought to abandon coal and oil. But the project exposes the limits of post-extractivism in one country. When Gustavo Petro won the presidential election in Colombia in 2022, he placed climate at...
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with SpaceX earlier this week, ruling that the National Labor Relations Board’s current structure is unconstitutional. The decision will keep the agency hamstrung until the case makes its way to the Supreme Court. The United...
Instead of trying to persuade the hundreds of millions of Americans to our right, sometimes we leftists seem to be competing to prove our radical bona fides to each other. That’s not politics — it’s just wasting precious time. With maximalist slogans about abolishing...
The Right loves to claim that socialists want a bunch of “free stuff.” On some level, they’re right. We do. But so do they. Zohran Mamdani’s program does have the audacity to offer New Yorkers free bus rides and free childcare. But it’s curious that the Trumps are so...
In Colorado, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is spearheading state legislation that would prohibit consumers from suing businesses whose AI potentially violates consumer protection laws. Colorado’s Democratic governor, Jared Polis, has called an emergency session of...
Proposing a housing policy that will accelerate New York’s housing crisis just to troll Zohran Mamdani is an odd look for Andrew Cuomo, who ran for mayor on seriousness and experience. But badly losing a primary will do that kind of thing to a man. Ex-governor and...
Former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe was convicted this month of bribing witnesses, making him the first head of state in modern Colombia to face a criminal conviction. The case is roiling the country’s political landscape. With Álvaro Uribe’s conviction for...