Review of Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health by Casey Means and Calley Means (Avery, 2024). All is not well in the world of MAHA. The announcement of Donald Trump’s second...
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This month, Die Linke met for its congress in Chemnitz, under the motto “Organizing Hope.” Such a slogan would have seemed out of touch the last time it held such a meet-up in October 2024....
On Europe’s Balkan periphery, there is constant dispute over what space this region truly belongs to. It’s neither quite the West nor truly the East — let alone part of the Global South. In times...
Throughout decades of often disastrous American military interventions abroad, Washington has also claimed to support affected populations through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), promising some baseline level of survival. This relationship of dependency...
A saga that ended with the rebel preacher Thomas Müntzer beneath an executioner’s axe in Mühlhausen on May 27, 1525, began not with his radical Protestant preaching or his apocalyptic visions, but rather a year...
Amid a flood of industry lobbying in Washington, DC, and Democrats’ capitulation, the Senate is set to pass the GENIUS Act, a sweeping cryptocurrency law that could spread fraud-ridden, destabilizing digital currencies across the banking system. But lawmakers and consumer protection...
Jeff Schuhrke After the 1932 election, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt won, Democrats had big majorities in Congress and were in charge of the White House for the next decade and a half. This is when...
Erik Satie had a way with words. There have been few composers who found such obvious glee in the use of language. In written performance indications appended to his scores, he would ask musicians to...
State and local governments have begun taking concrete steps toward a clean energy economy, and for now, even under Donald Trump, green union jobs are increasing. Meanwhile, unions have partnered with climate activists to win...
The choice of a new name is an opportunity for newly elected popes to hint at their agenda for the Catholic Church. In 2005, Joseph Ratzinger chose the name Benedict XVI to reflect his conviction...
Review of Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes (HarperCollins, 2025) On November 5, 2024, the night of Donald Trump’s historic second election victory, it suddenly —...
A new Criterion series of McCarthy-era noir films is a timely collection for an era of rising government repression — though you wouldn’t know it from Criterion’s oddly subdued promotion. Anti-communist protesters demonstrate outside the...
