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Right from his inauguration, Donald Trump unleashed slash-and-burn austerity on the federal government — with even deeper cuts planned for coming months. As part of a breakneck eighteen-month agenda to maximize “governmental efficiency and productivity,”...

It’s graduation season in America, one that has been made unusually dramatic and occasionally inspiring by university students such as Cecilia Culver of George Washington University and Logon Rozos of New York University, who defied...

The Trump administration’s McCarthyite deportation drive hit another roadblock on May 28. US district judge Michael E. Farbiarz found that a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act, granting the secretary of state the power...

Canada’s oldest company is dead. Hudson’s Bay, an iconic department store chain whose first location opened in 1881, has closed its retail shops and laid off its remaining employees — over 8,300 of them. The...

A last-minute provision inserted into President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful” budget reconciliation bill would allow Chile’s wealthiest business magnate — and former landlord to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump — to begin mining operations on protected...

A week after Donald Trump’s victory last November, I was in Winnipeg, Manitoba, for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s first ever concert in the city. I wondered if the Boss — who has...

It is hard not to romanticize Harry Braverman. A Depression-era metalworker and committed socialist who in 1974, two years before his untimely death, published what remains one of the most powerful applications of Karl Marx’s...

Last month, Billboard reported that around 60 percent of general admission attendees of the music festival Coachella financed their tickets through a “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) payment plan. These programs function as short-term loans,...

Review of Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right by Quinn Slobodian (Princeton University Press, 2025). Like any good capitalist thinker, Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek had a Book of Genesis–esque...

Two weeks ago, Pakistan and India were on the brink of all-out war. On May 7, India’s far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government launched air strikes across the Line of Control (LoC), targeting sites in...

At the 2025 Progress Summit hosted by the Broadbent Institute, a panel titled “A Stronger Canada: Building Our Economy in Uncertain Times” featured a discussion on the future of Canada’s energy infrastructure. There I argued...

Sergio Olhovich Back in 2004, I proposed to the writer Carlos Montemayor that we make a film about the expropriation of the oil industry. Why was I so interested? Because my father was a petroleum...