Under threat from a volatile United States, Canada needs to chart its own path to build a more self-reliant, just, and equitable economy. A time like this calls for nation-building: the country can’t afford austerity...
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Review of Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank by Justene Hill Edwards (W. W. Norton, 2024) Among the myriad metrics of inequality today, none appear so quintessentially American as the...
Though one can never know for certain what tips the scales toward protest — what single mundane horror, in a country oversaturated with mundane horrors, finally impels someone to shake loose their humdrum half-comforts and...
“The world as we knew it has gone,” declaimed Keir Starmer in the Telegraph in early April, with all the acuity of someone who, having slept through an earthquake, wakes up amid the ruins. But though...
For good or for ill, there is without a doubt more Magic (The Gathering) in the world than ever before: more Magic sets released each year; more forums for crafting decks; more tournaments; more card...
The old cliché is that everyone gets a third act in American politics. In 2025, Andrew Cuomo is trying to get his. For the past three months, Cuomo has led the pack in the race...
In 1936, Franklin D. Roosevelt won reelection in Coke County, Texas, with 92 percent of the vote. The margins were similarly stunning in rural counties across Texas: Oldham, Sterling, Glasscock, Roberts, and on and on....
In this monthly roundup of “large-unit labor elections,” Benjamin Y. Fong from the Center for Work and Democracy at Arizona State University recaps all National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) elections of 250 or more voters...
This April, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell tried to quell recent sell-offs by downplaying adverse market conditions, saying that the markets were “doing what they’re supposed to do.” Whatever his own intentions, his statement might...
In a passionate speech before congress in 1986, a young Joe Biden made a surprisingly frank admission. Not only was Israel vital to America’s interests, but if “Israel did not exist, the United States would...
On June 6, masked federal agents wearing tactical gear and armed with rifles mounted sweeping raids across multiple neighborhoods and workplaces in Los Angeles, California. Since then, the Los Angeles labor movement and its allies...
A health care industry giant’s Wall Street overlords just admitted that the company’s sky-high health insurance coverage denial rates reaped them enormous profits — and to keep the money flowing, they’re suing to stop the...
