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The message has apparently gone out among conservatives to start focusing on out-of-work young men in order to make cuts to Medicaid (Allysia Finley, Mike Johnson), with the idea being that if we make it so...

On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, Dr Paul Chambers responded to an arrest warrant at a local police station in Phitsanulok, northern Thailand. The warrant had been issued on March 31 and there was no previous...

We’re in a bleak moment in the fight over abortion access. Those waging the brutal battle in support of reproductive health care are facing conservative assaults on many fronts, and with dwindling resources. Abortion activists...

Lined by purple jacaranda trees and lush tepozanes, the walkable streets of Mexico City’s Condesa neighborhood connect a dense urban environment where contemporary apartment towers rise alongside squat multifamily buildings designed in a mix of...

Donald Trump announced Monday that he will propose a $1 trillion military budget as part of his 2026 federal spending request. “One trillion dollars . . . nobody’s seen anything like it,” Trump said. “We’re...

Simon Clarke was a British sociologist who made an immense contribution to Marxian thought and labor studies before his death in 2022. With his theoretical and empirical research, he set an example of how to...

On April 2, Donald Trump declared “Liberation Day,” marking the beginning of a new tariff regime that he promised would transform the American economy and its place in the world. Liberation appears to have been...

Shawn Fain It’s completely decimated the manufacturing base in this country, and it’s a big reason why we have the situation politically we have right now. When I grew up in Kokomo, Indiana, General Motors...

Interview by Amelia Ayrelan Iuvino On Thursday, March 27, non-tenure-track faculty at Wellesley College went on strike. Wellesley, a women’s liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, boasts such high-achieving alumnae as Hillary Rodham Clinton and...

Not even the reality show La Casa de los Famosos, a spin-off of Big Brother, managed to surpass the audience of the first televised Council of Ministers in Colombia last February. Millions of Colombians watched...

Americans articulated a lot of gripes with Joe Biden’s term as president: the rising unaffordability of daily life; the censorship of political speech on social media; the dramatic shrinking of the welfare state, including Medicaid,...

Paul Heideman What Trump has done with the Republican Party is totally unprecedented in American history. There’s never been a president — not Abraham Lincoln, not [Franklin D. Roosevelt] — who controlled his party the...