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This is an excerpt from Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy, now available from Verso Books. Fly over ocean anchorages near the world’s largest oil ports, and you’ll see a tangle...

Leading German media outlets rely primarily on official Israeli statements in their reporting on the Middle East. All Palestinian and Lebanese sources, as well as all international organizations and NGOs active in the Middle East...

The last few months are set to enter European history as the summer of humiliation. This August saw European leaders first ignored and then granted an appearance before Donald Trump’s desk, where they stood like...

Ayla Emmink was resting in their cabin when the shooting started. As deputy search-and-rescue coordinator (SARCO) on the rescue ship Ocean Viking, they had been awake for thirty-six hours. The ship had taken eighty-seven people...

Review of Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s by Charles Piller (Atria/One Signal, 2025). There is a terrible irony in the cuts that the White House has been imposing on...

The job of a central banker between 1990 and 2008, when globalization was at its peak, was generally an easy one. Mervyn King, former head of the Bank of England, came up with a fitting...

“A good organizer is a social arsonist,” Fred Ross Sr once said. “One who goes around setting people on fire.” Ross may be the most influential political activist you’ve never heard of. This anonymity was...

President Donald Trump’s success in pushing his tariff agenda has drawn sharp criticism — not just for the abuse of power and economic risks it creates but also for who it will hurt most. By...

New York City socialists learned something from Zohran Mamdani’s successful mayoral primary campaign: to contest citywide elections, we have to run campaigns that redefine and expand the Democratic electorate. We did this in New York...

A new study shared exclusively with the Lever details how corporate media has routinely downplayed the effects of corporate greed on price increases, often citing industry talking points or providing no explanation at all for crippling inflation over the...

If you’re a supporter of public education, it has been a tough summer. And if you, like me, have been sounding the alarm about the dangers of school privatization, it’s impossible to ignore the sense...

In August 2012, Steve Bannon sat in a Santa Monica office watching World of Warcraft players coordinate raids against impossible odds. The gamers never met in person. They didn’t share political views. Many couldn’t articulate...