Larry Ellison, founder of the software firm Oracle, is the second-richest billionaire in both the U.S. and the world, and for a brief moment was No. 1 in the world.
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Imagine there was a violent cult committing atrocities with impunity
If someone made a movie about such a thing I’d stop watching halfway through, because I would find it too unbelievable.
Trump in a multipolar world
Chris Bambery describes some shifting global axes after the Shanghai summit.
Volunteer doctors describe how Israeli troops ‘deliberately targeted’ Gaza children
“How is it possible that, in this small hospital, four children are lying here with gunshot wounds to the head – all admitted within the past 48 hours?” said one US trauma surgeon.
The return of drug war imperialism
Trump’s priority isn’t drugs. It’s Latin American resources.
Argentina: Massive demonstration outside Congress coincides with a rejection of Milei inside
On a massive day, the university mobilization coincided with the session in chamber of Deputies that restored funding to universities and the Pediatric Emergency.
Art History Professor Placed on Leave Over Social Media Comments on Charlie Kirk
Karen Leader is a tenured professor who has taught at Florida Atlantic University since 2009.
Erdogan’s ‘domestic front’: The dismantling of democracy in Turkiye
By targeting the opposition and courting the Kurdish movement, Ankara is laying the groundwork for a post-electoral authoritarian system.
Trump targets CODEPINK after public confrontation
Trump threatens RICO charges after CODEPINK protest, escalating crackdown on dissent and free speech.
Karl Korsch on Evgeny Pashukanis and Karl Renner — Ryan Breeden
It is immediately evident that the criteria laid out in this testament by Friedrich Engels for assessing a socialist legal program—and, by extension, a socialist theory of law—cannot be applied unchanged to the “Marxist theory of law” advanced by the Soviet Marxist...
Students walk out after teacher says “good” referencing Charlie Kirk’s murder
Hundreds of students at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, walked out on September 17, 2025, to protest teacher Bobby Nove’s alleged social media comment of “Good” in response to the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on September 11 at the...
If you don’t want to confront oppression, your role as an intellectual is pointless: The Thirty-Eighth Newsletter (2025)
Berta Cáceres, a Honduran leader in the struggle for indigenous and environmental rights, was killed in 2016 – a price too often paid by those who fight for human dignity and social justice.











