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Interview by Mike Watson Recent Finnish elections saw gains for the Left Alliance — and losses for the right-wing populist Finns Party. Leftist meme account admin Alma Tuuva (on Instagram: @pikakahvimemegirl) was among the newly...

Four days after it was signed into law, Donald Trump’s absurdly named Big Beautiful Bill (also referred to as the BBB) seems to represent everything that has gone wrong in American politics. There is the...

Piles upon piles of garbage line the streets of Philadelphia, and as temperatures hover above 90 degrees, the stench is almost unbearable. In the early hours of Tuesday, July 1, nearly ten thousand city workers...

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has been a ubiquitous presence in US schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universities, often over the objections of students,...

Despite the rising threat of climate disasters like last week’s deadly flash flood in Texas, the vast majority of America’s waterways are still not being monitored by water level gauges that help identify impending disasters....

Toward the end of Adam Curtis’s new documentary, Shifty, we’re given front-row seats to one of New Labour’s more bizarre spectacles. More than two decades ago, as Y2K’s world-historical deadline loomed, Tony Blair’s government planned...

Ian Brossat The far-right offensive is so powerful that lukewarm solutions won’t work anymore. I’m not saying that what we’ve been doing for the last decade was lukewarm. On the contrary — we transformed Paris....

Compared to their counterparts around the world, US trade unions have historically been reluctant to undertake broad programmatic and transformative agendas. The division emerged most clearly in the early twentieth century: In France, the General...

At a 2021 conference of the Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA), Zohran Mamdani discussed various short-term reforms favored by the organization. But alongside offering his thoughts on the groups’ immediate aims, he also had...

As President Donald Trump, surrounded by Republican members of Congress, marked the Fourth of July by signing a bill to cut health care and food benefits for millions of Americans to finance corporate tax cuts,...

After Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner sealed a $1.4 billion investment to develop Sazan, Albania’s largest island, into a luxury resort, he shared digital mock-ups of the nature reserve transformed by ranks of glass-fronted apartments...

Review of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI by Karen Hao (Penguin Press, 2025) Artificial intelligence (AI) is quite possibly the most hyped technology in history. For well over half a...