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The recent airing of the documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack on Britain’s Channel 4 was a wake-up call to many who’d been fence-sitting about the horrors that Israel has inflicted on the Palestinian people. The...

Akbar Shahid Ahmed You’re right to locate the genesis of the GHF in that broader environment around Trump. That is where, over the course of decades, a hardline pro-Israeli narrative has tried to undercut the...

Interview by Cal TurnerSara Van Horn When Israel and Hamas brokered a cease-fire in January 2025, it seemed possible that the suffering in Gaza would be alleviated, at least for a time. But since the...

Interview by Daniel Denvir Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary makes it clear that New York City’s chapter of Democratic Socialists of America (NYC DSA) is the most dynamic...

Marc Botenga I am not surprised to see that today many far-right forces are among the most enthusiastic supporters of Israeli policies and the Netanyahu government, just as many of them supported the South African...

Nivedita Majumdar That’s a really important question, because it can never be just about the rise of one strong figure — no matter how exciting that may be. To make real progress on left-wing priorities,...

It is highly debatable whether a strategy of US primacy — meaning, a global power arrangement where the United States is not just one of a number of similarly powerful nations, but by far the...

Last week, senate Democrats voted by a margin of twenty-seven to seventeen for a resolution introduced by Bernie Sanders to stop shipping assault rifles to Israel. Twenty-four of those senators also voted for Sanders’s other...

For the second summer in a row, I find myself writing about Punjabis in Italy under the urge of a tragedy. In 2024, it was the horrible death of Satnam Singh, the farmworker left to...

Zohran Mamdani’s shock victory in this year’s New York City Democratic mayoral primary upended New York politics and called into question the effectiveness of big local unions, which mostly lined up behind loser Andrew Cuomo....

Gilbert Achcar Well, the first intifada peaked in 1988, especially during the first half of that year. It was a grassroots movement, organized through local and popular committees — a true mass mobilization that saw...

If there’s one thing Democratic and Republican politicians can agree on, it’s that childcare is the workforce behind the workforce. “Our child care workers are the workforce behind the workforce, risking their health and safety...