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James S. Fishkin In my book, I review the evidence from a series of national “America in One Room” projects we conducted with a great survey partner, NORC [National Opinion Research Center] at the University...

In 2022, when Mike Davis died at age seventy-six, obituary writers rightly praised his radicalism, his anti-imperialism, his warnings of environmental catastrophe, and the sophisticated yet lucid brand of Marxism with which he observed capitalism’s...

President Donald Trump’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair, Wall Street’s top cop, just sold his financial services firm for more than $25 million — and is set to receive a massive tax break on the...

I did myself no favors by checking to see what critics are saying about Ari Aster’s new film, Eddington, a movie that could go down as something like our generation’s Network or even Dr. Strangelove....

Across the country, a movement to abolish the subminimum tipped wage has gained ground. As of 2025, seven states — Alaska, California, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington — have enacted what advocates call “One...

In the days and weeks after democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani clinched the Democratic Party nomination in the New York City mayoral race, apocalyptic rumors began to swirl of the wealthy running for the hills. Jim...

A palpable shift on the question of Israel’s genocide in Gaza is transpiring in American politics. Over the past week, prominent figures who have said nothing about or even actively supported Israel’s nonstop killing spree...

The AAU, which stands for the Amateur Athletic Union, a US nonprofit organization that hosts a variety of different sports for youth athletes, has drawn attention largely for its influence over youth basketball. Many high-profile...

The European Union has achieved something historic. Fifty-five years passed between the first and the second Peace of Thorn, which, in 1466, ratified the total defeat of the Teutonic Knights against the Polish King. It...

“We are living in a right-wing dictatorship.” This is how Joyner Myron Sánchez, deputy secretary general of the anti-imperialist political organization Juventudes Revolucionarias (Young Revolutionaries, JR), describes the situation in Panama today. “If you disagree [with the government],...

At President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the ceremony saw the president-elect wreathed by billionaire tech CEOs including Apple’s Tim Cook, Google’s Sundar Pichai, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla’s Elon Musk, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. The effect...

Ole Nymoen The question is: What kind of sovereignty is that? The sovereignty of the state is the sovereignty of a ruling force over the people who live in the state. And the only reason...