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Real estate runs New York. Disgraced mayor Eric Adams says “I am real estate,” while homelessness levels and rents hit record highs month after month. Landlord profits are up 12 percent over the last year,...

The other shoe has dropped. Donald Trump has ended the will-he-won’t-he mystery of joining Israel’s war against Iran. Always one to choose the grand gesture, the US president has let loose the dogs of war,...

In 1944, writing from a position at the heart of the wartime state, Marxist economist Ed Sard made an astute and even uncanny prediction: “We are now being prepared to recognize as a legitimate economic...

In his files at Washington University, among Missouri’s Communist Party materials, William “Bill” Sentner kept a collection of St Louis labor history documents, including a newspaper clipping of a Mark Twain quote on the “undeniable...

At a rally on June 14, New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani echoed political inspiration and recent endorser Sen. Bernie Sanders to a crowd of thousands of supporters: “The government must deliver an...

Five months. That’s how long it took Donald Trump to get the United States into another Middle East war after he had told everyone he would “stop the chaos in the Middle East.” Trump, who...

Monday, June 9, marked one year since Emmanuel Macron’s surprise move to call snap elections to the National Assembly. It was a perilous move for the second-term president — ending four weeks later with a...

By now, the refrain “socialism or barbarism” has been worn down to the nub. The struggle for a more just and democratized economy and polity isn’t over, but for the most part, the ruling class...

For almost two months, Panama has seen a national strike against privatization, mega-mining, and US imperialism. It is the country’s third period of mass civil unrest since 2022. Capital and the government have retaliated through...

On Thursday, Spain’s center-left prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, broke ranks with other NATO leaders as he refused to commit to spending 5 percent of GDP on defense. Since taking office in January, Donald Trump has...

Congressional lawmakers have inserted a line into President Donald Trump’s new tax bill that would reward Wall Street firms with billions of dollars of new tax breaks when they load up companies with debt and...

“It only takes a handful of successful people to leave to decimate the city’s tax base,” billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman said to the Free Press on Wednesday. And he’s right. A small but...