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Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s recent victory in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary has deepened the debate on the future of the Democratic Party. Since the party’s defeat last November, Democrats have been adrift, and...

Vivek Chibber It’s true that Trump has dominated political discourse the last ten years in a way that I don’t think any president has since Ronald Reagan. That is, I think, what makes it attractive...

In his May 2025 quarterly announcement, Federal Reserve (Fed) chair Jerome Powell warned of the rising risk of stagflation, a dreaded combination of high inflation and unemployment. Mainstream thinkers characterize stagflation as a “calamitous anomaly”...

Robert Greenwald The documentary is about the Palestinian journalists, over two hundred of whom have been killed by Israel since the war began. The reason I decided to make the film has a couple of...

The crises are piling up fast and furiously. Billionaires are running the country, upending the rule of law, supplying armaments for wars abroad and robots to replace us in our jobs, all while marching our...

Mona Ali On April 2, 2025, Trump’s “Liberation Day” pronouncements of rebalancing trade through new reciprocal tariffs on most countries — based on spurious calculations of how much another country’s bilateral trade surplus had hurt...

Review of Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim (Irish Pages Press, 2025) In 1988, three books by Israel’s “new historians” appeared that dismantled the myths surrounding the Israeli state’s foundation...

Celine Song’s newest film Materialists is a sleek and sexy piece of liberal feminist propaganda. Billed as a traditional romantic comedy, Materialists’ global box office earnings surpassed $45 million as of July 6, already outpacing...

The unexploded ordnance beneath one of Antarctica’s many penguin colonies probably poses no risk to humans working nearby. While this may seem like a crazy sentence to write, it accurately reflects the slapdash attitude with...

America’s winning, winning, winning like never before. — Donald J. Trump Fiscal policy may sound like the last word in dullness, but as the German sociologist Rudolf Goldscheid wrote in 1917, “The budget is the...

Mercy Wanjiru Ndungu speaks from inside her single-room tin shack in Nairobi’s Kasarani neighborhood, her voice tight with emotion. “I feel so much bitterness,” she says, her eyes red and glassy. “When I think about...

When millions of Canadians returned a Liberal Party government — led by Mark Carney — earlier this year, they were attempting to manage two concerns: threats to the country’s sovereignty from Donald Trump and the...