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In March 2025, the severed head of King George V made a controversial appearance at a Melbourne concert performed by Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap. The solid bronze head was removed from its body during the...

This is an extract from Road to October 7: A Brief History of Palestinian Islamism, now available from Verso Books. On June 25, 2006, eight Palestinian militants from the Qassam Brigades, the Popular Resistance Committee,...

As the bombs continue to rain down on the people of Palestine, and Western leaders do all they can to protect the Israeli military operation, a bloc of nations has emerged to do what they...

A few weeks ago, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won a landslide victory in the Democratic mayoral primary in New York City, defeating former governor Andrew Cuomo by twelve points. Since then, his most adamant haters...

This is the second article in a two-part series on the threat of AI-driven job loss and worker displacement. You can read the first part here. AI companies are reporting on disturbing increases in the...

The American welfare state has always been imperfect because it has always been incomplete — means-tested rather than universal, stigmatized rather than celebrated. Austerity is not just a matter of budget cuts or political whims...

I’m not a fan of Billy Ackman for several reasons, but nothing has roused my ire more than than this: because of Ackman, I now have to write about sports, which is something I never...

I read all about the hysterical right-wing reaction to writer-director James Gunn’s Superman reboot and the claims that it features “woke” Superman propaganda because the alien protagonist is represented as an illegal immigrant, according to...

The occupied Palestinian territory [OPT] today is a hellscape. In Gaza, Israel has dismantled even the last United Nations function — humanitarian aid — in order to deliberately starve, displace time and again, or kill...

Two weeks ago, the New York Times ginned up a controversy over Zohran Mamdani’s college application. In his senior year of high school, Mamdani applied to Columbia University. Asked to identify his race, he checked off...

Over the past thirty-five years, Mahmoud Assaf has collected over thirty thousand books in his Gaza City home. Despite being displaced five times (from Gaza City to Khan Yunis to Rafah, and now to a...

An all-too predictable pattern has emerged in US-Canada relations. US president Donald Trump makes Canada “an offer it can’t refuse.” What follows is a national gnashing of teeth, flag-waving, businesses and politicians going patriotic. The...