The Detroit Opera has cancelled its season-opening production of The Girl of the Golden West (La fanciulla del West) by Giacomo Puccini.
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The emperor of the world
War is like Janus: it has more than one face.
Assange joins historic anti-genocide march across Sydney’s Harbour Bridge
Julian Assange joined at least 90,000 and as many as 300,000 people who marched across Australia’s most famous bridge on Sunday to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The World in a Nutshell: An Interview with Vijay Prashad
This interview was conducted for the journal 马克思主义与现实 (Marxism and Reality), where it was published earlier this year. Marxism Wang Jing: Why did you grow up to be a Marxist? Could you briefly introduce your personal experience and academic career? Vijay Prashad: I...
Trump exploits jail contracts to skirt sanctuary policies, supercharge deportations, new report shows
A new report from the Prison Policy Initiative reveals how President Donald Trump’s administration is driving mass deportation by secretly using local jails—even in places with sanctuary policies—to detain immigrants.
Requiem for the Roberts Court
Hasty rulings on cases in the Supreme Court’s growing ‘shadow docket’ have fundamentally altered United States governance.
Trump exploits jail contracts to skirt sanctuary policies, supercharge deportations, new report shows
A new report from the Prison Policy Initiative reveals how President Donald Trump’s administration is driving mass deportation by secretly using local jails—even in places with sanctuary policies—to detain immigrants.
Requiem for the Roberts Court
Hasty rulings on cases in the Supreme Court’s growing ‘shadow docket’ have fundamentally altered United States governance.
What else can they do?
This post provides context to today’s news (July 31st 2025) of Donald Trump’s ‘25% tariff plus penalty’ announcement on India. For a background of Indian ruling class’ response to trade pressure from the Trump administration, see What Explain’s India’s Response to...
Fox News shields EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin as he promotes the most destructive climate rollback in EPA history
Fox News’ America Reports hosted Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin and Energy Secretary Chris Wright to discuss the Trump administration's proposal to repeal the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding, which affirmed that greenhouse gases endanger...
Unilateral and illegal sanctions–mainly by the United States–kill half a million civilians per year: The Thirty-First Newsletter (2025)
A study in The Lancet estimates that unilateral sanctions have caused as much death as wars, with an estimated half a million deaths per year.
Where’s the outrage over labor leader Chris Smalls’ violent arrest by the IDF?
Despite Smalls having been profiled by every major media outlet in the U.S. when he successfully led the union drive at Amazon, not a single major media outlet has covered his violent detention by the IDF.