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Zohran Mamdani, a thirty-three-year-old New York State Assembly member and democratic socialist, could very well become the next mayor of New York City. Andrew Cuomo, who resigned as governor in 2021 following sexual misconduct allegations,...

Emotions are riding high in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s win in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York. The three-term state assemblyman’s shock upset against former New York governor Andrew Cuomo this past...

Before the revolution of 1917, Iulii Martov was arguably a more prominent figure in Russia’s socialist movement than Vladimir Lenin or Leon Trotsky. While Lenin and Trotsky saw October 1917 as a workers’ revolution, Martov...

On Wednesday, Donald Trump and former Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte sat down for a press conference at the NATO summit in The Hague. Asked about the ongoing war between Israel and Iran — a...

The twenty months leading into June were bloody ones for the Middle East. Thousands were killed in an Israeli war on Lebanon that saw whole city neighborhoods and towns reduced to ruins. Regime change in...

Workers, trade unions, and social protections are today being swept off the European Union’s agenda. The wind of unbridled capitalism is blowing in from Donald Trump’s White House — but it’s also stirring up impulses...

MacKenzie Price’s “future of education” looks more like a Silicon Valley fever dream than anything resembling a classroom. In videos that the Austin, Texas–based influencer and entrepreneur shares of students at her dozen or so...

By the fall of 1964, students from the Berkeley campus of the University of California had succeeded in enraging Republican senator William F. Knowland, darling of the anti-communist “China Lobby.” Knowland owned the Oakland Tribune,...

Gazillionaire Bill Ackman says that he is “gravely concerned” by the possibility of Zohran Mamdani getting elected mayor because rich people are going to flee New York and the city will become “economically unviable.” Paul...

Through a series of closed-door meetings, overnight votes, and empty promises, House Republicans passed a tax scheme that will kick sixteen million Americans off their health care, skyrocket the cost of food, and funnel massive giveaways to Big Oil while gutting...

On Monday of this week, the British home secretary, Yvette Cooper, announced plans to outlaw the campaigning group Palestine Action, placing it in the same legal category as ISIS and Boko Haram. Cooper intends to...

Zohran Kwame Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary last night. The socialist began this election with almost no name recognition. After his campaign left everything on the field, prepared for weeks of uncertainty and vote-counting...