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Much of the current talk about population decline fixates on how low birth rates ultimately doom humanity to extinction. The demographic math is grim. To simplify, imagine a population of one hundred and a total...

Review of Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang (W. W. Norton, 2025) Something about the United States is broken. Our already mediocre infrastructure is crumbling, the pace of housing construction is...

The pattern is all too familiar. Someone commits a crime, the far right seizes on it as supposed proof of their racist theories about the origins of crime, a particular group is targeted on social...

This is an extract from Why Fascism Is on the Rise in France: From Macron to Le Pen, now available from Verso Books. The far-right vote has risen steadily in every French election since 2012,...

When the Italian anarchist Carlo Cafiero died in the 1890s, he supposedly “ended his days in madness, obsessed with the idea that he might be consuming more than his fair share of sunshine.” That probably...

If you’ve spent any time at all on TikTok recently, you’ll have seen plenty of videos from young people despairing about life in the UK. Videos with captions like “Why is everything so expensive?” “Why...

Flight attendants with Air Canada and subsidiary Air Canada Rouge walked out early August 17. As expected, the Liberal government ordered them back to work twelve hours later, declaring their strike unlawful. In a bold...

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the so-called “Meidner Plan.” On August 27, 1975, the trade union economist Rudolf Meidner and his collaborators, Anna Hedborg and Gunnar Fond, presented a radical proposal to gradually...

We used to have a slaughterhouse in the town of Čapljina /Many Serb bodies were washed away by the river Neretva. A Croatian fascist song from World War II, popular in far-right circles today. This...

Volodymyr Zelensky’s failed attempt to subordinate Ukraine’s anti-corruption organs to his prosecutor general’s office has drawn widespread Western criticism. Just weeks earlier, accusations of authoritarian consolidation, opposition attacks, and crony cover-ups would hardly surface in...

In Chicago last August, the Democratic Party staged the version of itself it prefers: lights on cue, music in major keys, speeches polished for unity. For those of us who organized the Uncommitted campaign, the...

With the exception of the most loyal MAGA supporters, President Donald Trump’s legal overreaches have managed to alienate observers across the political spectrum. Whether it be the liberal use of national emergency declarations to justify...