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More than three decades after the Palestinians declared statehood and long after most of the international community recognized that state, a growing number of Western countries are finally catching up with the rest of the...

The Federal Reserve announced a quarter-point interest rate cut on Wednesday last week and signaled the possibility of two additional cuts later this year. To move closer to a neutral policy stance, the Fed will...

The Census Bureau’s new annual report on poverty found that 44 million Americans lived in poverty last year, including 10 million children. As a percentage of the population, overall poverty stayed the same from 2023...

David Adler We always knew, looking back across the past fifteen years of the Freedom Flotilla initiative, that there coexisted in constant tension these twin but incompatible narratives about flotillas. On one side, you have...

Youth and hope have been linked in human imagination since time immemorial. Now a new wave of Democratic challengers is capitalizing on that deep cultural association to bypass substantive politics entirely, hoping that the prospect...

On Sunday, British prime minister Keir Starmer announced that his country would recognize Palestinian statehood. In July, he had threatened such a move if Israel did not declare a ceasefire. This already told us that...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — On September 4, Nepal’s government abruptly banned all major social media platforms, claiming they were spreading “anti-national disinformation.” Within hours, Kathmandu’s streets began to swell with anger. Young Nepalis took to the...

I’ve always had trouble with the fantasy genre, though there are many cases when the form works wonderfully. Great examples include The Wizard of Oz, Beauty and the Beast (the 1946 Jean Cocteau version), It’s...

In April 1921, a group of Italian fascist squadristi conducted one of their then-routine attacks on leftists, targeting the Tuscan village of Foiano. Armed with weapons from a local army barracks and led by a...

Lennar, the nation’s second-largest homebuilder, has built more homes than it’s capable of selling at the current asking prices. But instead of lowering home prices for the public, the company has launched an online marketplace available exclusively...

A reported 110,000 people, and probably many more, poured into central London on Saturday, September 13, for the “Unite the Kingdom” demonstration. It was the largest far-right rally in British history. For years, the fascist...

Municipal socialism is an increasingly popular idea, and not only in New York City, where Zohran Mamdani is favored to become mayor in November. New polling in the Minneapolis race for mayor shows democratic socialist...