This past weekend, I traveled to Cuba with the Nuestra América Convoy alongside a delegation of Cuban Americans to deliver aid and stand in solidarity with our fellow Cubans as a US-driven fuel blockade pushes...
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A specter is haunting the United States — the specter of “total boomer luxury communism.” Or at least that’s what conservative pundits want younger generations to think. Conservative writer Russ Greene coined the term “Total...
When the General Assembly of the Confederation of Ethiopian Trade Unions (CETU) met in December 2025, it confirmed that the membership of its affiliated unions had, for the first time in Ethiopian history, surpassed one...
Stephen Lewis may be the best ex-politician Canada ever had. Lewis passed away aged eighty-eight on March 31 after a long battle with cancer. News of his death came just two days after his son...
On my trip to China last month, I was surprised to learn about China’s latest viral meme: the kill line (斩杀线). The term originates from video games and refers to a point at which a...
When Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed announced that Hasan Piker would join him at campaign rallies this spring, the Democratic establishment reacted as if someone had lit a cigarette inside a Whole Foods. Rep. Brad...
It was not an April Fool’s Day joke. On the morning of Wednesday, April 1, New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin, the most powerful member of the fifty-one-person legislative body, made an announcement regarding...
The Trump administration won’t say and prefers the cost not be discussed. The United States spent an estimated $28.7 billion in the first two weeks of the Iran war, or $2.1 billion a day on...
Conrad Blackburn Right now in New York City, there are people who are complaining that there’s no heat in some of the housing units at Rikers Island. There are people who are being locked in...
On a January webinar for Chalkbeat, Lindsey Burke, a senior education official in the Trump administration, faced an audience question about the administration’s rationale for moving K-12 programs to the Department of Labor — part...
Review of Year Zero #1: A Chapo Trap House Anthology by Chapo Trap House (Bad Egg Publishing, 2025) This March marks the ten-year anniversary of Chapo Trap House, the wildly irreverent and surprisingly influential podcast....
In less than a quarter-mile stretch of sidewalk, chatter in fifty-seven languages overlaps with the sound of dancehall, bachata, Thai pop, Haitian kompa, and Micronesian hip-hop. At sunset, dozens gather for iftar, breaking their Ramadan...
