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Martin Lukacs It’s an effort to dress up hard-right market fundamentalism — which is really just a more extreme version of our governing ideology — as a maverick, antiestablishment rebuke to the system. That’s a...

Warfare is doing very well with audiences and critics, though it can’t match the box-office numbers of Civil War (2024), the previous collaboration between Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza. And A Minecraft Movie still rules...

One of the continuing puzzles I come back to is the separation of powers: Where did the framers go wrong? Political scientists often claim that it is norms that undergird the US Constitution, but this...

Oliver Stone Rip Van Winkle. I woke up after thirty years and here I am again, same thing basically. Frankly, my interpretation is that they never absorbed the facts of the Warren Commission. There are...

April 1975 was a pivotal moment in global revolutionary history. In the space of two weeks, communist forces changed the map of Southeast Asia and sent shockwaves around the world. After the dramatic fall of...

On April 3, 2025, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW), an anti-union trade association, sent Attorney General Pam Bondi a letter urging her to invalidate fifteen National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) cases that were...

On April 14, federal agents snatched seafood processing worker Juan Francisco Mendez from his vehicle in New Bedford, Massachusetts, breaking the rear window with a sledgehammer while he and his wife were sitting in the...

Interview by Daniel Denvir This is part two of a three-part series on the history and present of Central America with Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar. The interview picks up where we left off in...

Samuel Farber’s article “In Defense of Progress” is very sensible and rational. We agree on many points, but I have some important disagreements. I’ll try to present them briefly. Is Walter Benjamin, like other Western...

$150 billion: that’s the grand total of savings Elon Musk revealed last Thursday that he and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team are expecting to make after months of ruthless and often mindless cuts...

There’s a moment in chapter 12 of Capital where Karl Marx describes a critical phase of glassmaking in a manufacturing workshop. Five workers gather at “the hole” of the furnace, each focused on an individual...

President Donald Trump’s choice for Internal Revenue Service (IRS) director just had his six-figure debt paid off by campaign donors whose firms have significant, often contentious business before the tax agency he would lead, according...