Fed chair Jerome Powell announced a quarter-point interest rate cut last week in an effort to prevent an economic slowdown. But the cause of the current crisis is Donald Trump’s brutal immigration policy. Donald Trump’s immigration restrictions are projected to impose...
A new crop of young Democratic Party challengers is running on generational politics alone, hoping to capitalize on voters’ hunger for change without running afoul of the centrist establishment’s political preferences. Twenty-five-year-old social media influencer Deja...
The farcical spat that has riven Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s “Your Party” exposes a Left increasingly focused on itself rather than on the class it aims to mobilize. Rather than emphasizing what unites us as socialists, we slip into debates that convince even...
The news that many Western nations have recognized Palestine has driven Israel and its allies into a fit of hysteria. Israel’s leaders knows that it is too weak to dominate its region alone. Israel’s fear is that continued popular pressure will cause the dam to burst....
Donald Trump is amassing more and more tools of repression, and he is not afraid to use them. In the second Donald Trump presidency, the state’s tool kit for repression has been evolving fast. (Leon Neal / Getty Images) In April 1921, a group of Italian fascist...
Homebuilding giant Lennar has a large stockpile of houses it can’t sell at current asking prices. Instead of lowering home prices for the public, the company has launched an e-marketplace catering to wealthy investors and corporate landlords. Lennar’s new housing...
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey pairs Colin Farrell with Margot Robbie in a colorful, life-affirming fantasy setting. How could it go so wrong? Margo Robbie and Colin Farrell in A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. (Columbia Pictures) I’ve always had trouble with the fantasy...
A sudden social media blackout lit the fuse. But the youth revolt shaking Kathmandu runs far deeper, fueled by years of corruption, joblessness, and a democracy hijacked by its former revolutionaries. Nepal’s current crisis stems from a republic born of revolution,...
This month’s “Unite the Kingdom” march was the biggest far-right rally in British history. Sponsored by Elon Musk, it seeks not just a Nigel Farage government but to build a mass street movement. Protesters march at the “Unite the Kingdom” rally on Westminster Bridge...
Keir Starmer’s British government has formally recognized a state of Palestine. But he still needs to take some basic steps to start treating Palestinians as human beings. Keir Starmer’s statement recognizing Palestinian statehood seems to be more about his own...
TikTok is being sold to an investor consortium that includes Oracle, the tech company of pro-Trump billionaire Larry Ellison. The move is yet another big step in the consolidation of major media sources under right-wing control. Larry Ellison seems to have joined the...
In the middle of war-ravaged Europe, Asllan Ypi, a jaded communist and son of Albania’s tenth prime minister, reflects on a world shaped by the rise of Stalinism and the collapse of the liberal order. In Albania, there were at least five different resistance...