A wish list of legislative items prioritized by the pro-Israel lobbying powerhouse American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) earlier this year has been nearly entirely fulfilled by the new National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), including tens of...
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Whenever politics has been polarized between Left and Right, there have always been liberals and socialists hoping that their enemies could be won back. In the Italy of 1943–45, a country divided into a South...
Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi was a towering figure in the field of history-writing in India. His works on various aspects of ancient Indian history brought about a paradigm shift in the scholarly understanding of the period....
This is an extract from The Cameroon War: A History of French Neocolonialism in Africa, now available from Verso Books. During the 1950s and ’60s, France waged a brutal colonial war in Cameroon while managing...
In American politics, working-class votes are a requirement for electoral success. Frustratingly, however, Democratic candidates who want to run campaigns that appeal to the working class often find themselves running against their own party, too....
As Canadians began to tune out politics for the summer, Mark Carney’s Liberal government pushed forward with a border bill reminiscent of conservative security crackdowns on both sides of the forty-ninth parallel. Framed as a...
As private equity reshapes American health care, the dentistry industry is now leading the charge — and patients are bearing the cost. In the last decade, private equity firms have been quietly taking control of...
The post-Reconstruction United States has never seen durable progressive change without the labor movement’s involvement. The postwar economy’s rapid, widely distributed gains in material conditions for everyday Americans may be the banner accomplishment, but the...
“Bombs and bullshit fill the air” is the line that opens “Yesterday’s Hero,” a track from Dean Wareham’s new solo album, That’s the Price of Loving Me. It isn’t difficult to grasp the reference to...
In his song “l’Estaca,” Lluís Llach compares Francisco Franco’s Spanish dictatorship to a stake in the ground that, when pulled hard enough, will finally be unearthed and fall. Since the end of the twentieth century,...
Writer-director Ari Aster tends to end his narratives in careening mayhem that finally exhausts itself in an absurdist state of entrapment. Midsommar, his best film, makes use of the conventions of the folk horror subgenre...
The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union (HERE) gathered in Milwaukee in 1947 for its largest convention in history. With over 400,000 members, HERE was the fifth-largest affiliate of the American Federation...
