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Germany’s political and media elite surely haven’t shied away from criticizing Donald Trump’s authoritarianism. There have been countless scathing op-eds, alongside Green Party minister Cem Özdemir denouncing “threats and challenges to the very values that...

Buried underneath the Greenland ice sheet is the legacy of a spectacular American failure. Camp Century was a hidden US military base, a network of tunnels that was supposed to expand from its originally limited...

President Donald Trump’s infatuation with tariffs dates back to the 1980s, when he first said tariff was “the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” On March 26, he announced “a 25 percent tariff on all cars...

The Florida legislature is rapidly advancing a suite of bills allowing employers to underpay sub-minimum-wage workers — including children. One measure proposes undoing key child labor restrictions, like rules regulating maximum hours per week, banning overnight shifts,...

It’s clear that Americans don’t like oligarchs. When the broad left is campaigning against oligarchy and oligarchs, we are on solid ground. Politico reported Wednesday that Donald Trump has told members of his inner circle...

Yesterday Donald Trump announced what amounts to a dramatic escalation of the trade war initiated during his first term. Addressing a crowd of auto union workers at a Rose Garden event at the White House,...

Review of What Was Neoliberalism? Studies in the Most Recent Phase of Capitalism, 1973–2008 by Neil Davidson (Haymarket Books, 2024) In the view of the reeling old neoliberal establishments, Donald Trump increasingly appears as the...

Donald Trump’s hatred for Washington, DC, is well-documented. He has tied his campaign to cut federal jobs explicitly to draining “the swamp.” These cuts to the federal workforce will devastate everything from food safety to disease research and cybersecurity. Sometimes missing...

In September 1974, socialists in Dili founded the Revolutionary Front for the Independence of Timor-Leste, better known as FRETILIN. Against the backdrop of the Cold War, FRETILIN grew from a small group of left-wing intellectuals...

Review of Inertia: Purposeful Inefficiencies in Financial Markets by Yuval Millo, Crawford Spence, and James J. Valentine (Columbia University Press, 2025). In the 2023 novel The Counting House by Gary Sernovitz, an unnamed protagonist decides...

While accounts of privatization in Europe have often focused on the sale of key state enterprises and public housing, the privatization of housing development has received less attention. Since the 1970s, European countries have increasingly...

This evening, Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to touch down in Budapest, at the invitation of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán. The far-right leader invited his Israeli counterpart despite Netanyahu being formally accused of using starvation...