The Trump administration claims to be fighting an existential battle against insurrectionary forces in Los Angeles. In truth, it created this cynical spectacle itself, deploying troops and inflaming tensions to distract from its policy failures. A confrontation...
The activists aboard the Madleen aid ship couldn’t break the siege of Gaza. But Greta Thunberg and her colleagues have powerfully drawn attention to Israel’s blockade — and the West’s refusal to do anything about it. Greta Thunberg with part of the crew of the...
With some prominent Democrats and liberal pundits arguing for the party to try to win Elon Musk back to its side, you have to ask: Is American politics simply a matter of who can best kiss the ass of narcissistic reactionary billionaires? Elon Musk at the White House...
This morning, Israeli authorities captured the aid boat Madleen, halting its mission to Gaza. Just hours before it was intercepted we spoke to Rima Hassan, a French member of the European Parliament who was aboard the vessel. Rima Hassan at an event for La France...
A new whistleblower lawsuit is accusing the Trump administration of using a secret subpoena to force Colorado officials to ignore state laws and hand over the private financial information of residents who are sponsoring unaccompanied immigrant children. A US...
Socialist New York City Council member Alexa Avilés is running for reelection against a Democratic primary candidate backed by big real estate and pro-Israel money. We spoke to her about her record and the forces that want her out of office. Alexa Avilés speaking in...
Last Wednesday, workers at a port in southern France searched a cargo ship headed for Haifa — and found it carried 19 pallets of machine gun parts. They blocked the shipment, refusing to be complicit in Israel’s war crimes. A demonstrator holds a placard reading "Gaza...
Donald Trump’s attacks on environmental regulation and the administrative state are part of a right-wing class war — one that pits patriotic citizens against perceived liberal experts defending what’s left of the New Deal order. Donald Trump during a news conference...
The kind of Jewish identity on display in Jewish-led Palestine solidarity demonstrations organized by groups like Jewish Voice for Peace is part of a long history of Jewish identity being bound up in leftist politics. Jewish activists and allies take part in a...
Two billionaires, Donald Trump and Elon Musk, are squabbling over the federal government’s spoils. It seems almost quaint to worry about a revolving door between the public and private sectors now that the whole facade’s been blown off. This week, as Donald Trump and...
The kind of mass volunteer door-knocking operation that New York City mayoral campaign for Zohran Mamdani has built is the way to fight rising authoritarianism and the erosion of democracy. New York democratic socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani waves to the...
The murder of mosque-goer Aboubakar Cissé in April again highlighted the prevalence of Islamophobia in France, discrimination that is driving increasing numbers of Muslim immigrants to leave the country. Protesters rally against Islamophobia in Paris on May 11, 2025....