Monthly Review Blog

Walk through Fort Worth, Texas, and you’ll see the story of a collapsing empire written in steel and concrete.

In February 1947, Eleanor Roosevelt, writer and activist, and wife of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945); Peng Chun Chang, Chinese scholar, philosopher, human rights activist, and diplomat; and Charles Habib Malik, Lebanese scholar, diplomat, and...

Almost two centuries after its opening night, Gogol’s five-act satirical play The Government Inspector continues to create a stir with every performance, seemingly no matter where. Maybe because corruption and self-serving double-talk aren’t just familiar features of...

Grassroots organizer Manuela Sánchez emphasized the need to collectivize care work in communal spaces.

The Tories are increasingly fond of deriding their opponents as Marxists - but DEREK WALL says there should be no shame in such a label.

It makes a difference in driving the greater intensity of political, diplomatic, and civic pressures to have a count of 600,000 rather than 67,000 or 200,000 children rather than 20,000 children murdered.

In refusing to bow to the applause of killers, Odeh and Cassif embody what it means to act with conscience in a place built on coercion and military might.

Students say they simply gathered on campus yesterday and held up posters of Saibaba, who died last year after a decade of wrongful incarceration.

Natural resources and strategic alliances are important to understanding why Venezuela is in the eye of the storm.

With the federal government shutdown grinding on, the nation’s economic picture is collapsing into silence and uncertainty.

It is now impossible, says historian Rashid Khalidi, to teach about Israel, Palestine and the ongoing genocide in elite American education institutions.

Awarded by the Nobel Committee for advancing a "peaceful transition," U.S. govt-sponsored politician Maria Corina Machado is a veteran coup leader who's called for Israel to invade Venezuela