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An Iranian acquaintance of mine living in Istanbul has barely turned her phone off in recent months. She has internet access. Her daughter and son-in-law, still in Iran, do not. They fled from Tehran to...

Palantir, Meta, Paramount Skydance, and more than two dozen other corporations might have broken the law when they funneled millions to the Trump administration through undisclosed donations to the revamped White House ballroom, Donald Trump’s...

The title of Phil Ochs’s 1965 song “I Ain’t Marching Anymore” can be misleading. Rather than encouraging Americans to stop marching in protest of the Vietnam War, Ochs was reflecting his generation’s anger at being...

Medicare for All (M4A) is back. Juliana Stratton, who just won the Illinois Democratic Senate primary, pledged in her victory speech to “fight for Medicare for all.” Graham Platner, the populist veteran and oyster farmer...

Artificial intelligence is a hungry species. It is designed to steal people’s livelihoods, hoard personal data, and devour enough energy and land to remake and ruin entire towns. Senator Bernie Sanders, long critical of the...

Landlords dominate Australia’s parliament and Reserve Bank. Their policies make the housing crisis worse. In Australia, a cost-of-living surge comes in the context of a worsening housing crisis. (Lisa Maree Williams / Getty Images) In...

The previously undisclosed board of an ascendant DC think tank pushing Democrats to the center includes a Democratic Party megadonor with a stake in artificial intelligence chip designer Nvidia, which could benefit from the organization’s...

The US labor movement, like the nation at large, stands at a crossroads. The next few years might well determine whether the United States descends into an era of ​“electoral autocracy.” We believe this period...

It’s 2026, and we’re building up a surveillance society in earnest. A few years ago, I rewatched Enemy of the State. Released in 1998, just before the calendar rolled over into the new millennium, the...

Early yesterday morning, Donald Trump issued a threat on his social media platform Truth Social that would have sounded implausibly extreme if a comic book writer had put it in the speech bubble of a...

Despite having lasted only six weeks, Donald Trump’s war with Iran was somehow shaping up to be the worst foreign policy decision of a short twenty-first century full of them, a ballooning disaster on almost...

When I found out that Alexander Kluge had died at age ninety-four on March 25, I picked up my copy of Case Histories, his first short story collection. Kluge was a postwar polymath: an innovative...