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The Trump administration has issued a blanket ethics waiver to venture capitalist David Sacks, now the president’s special advisor for artificial intelligence and crypto, clearing him to work on regulatory issues directly related to his financial...

This is an extract from Major Corrections: An Intellectual Biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro, now available from Verso Books. Sebastiano Timpanaro’s politics were one of the great organizing principles of his life. After his entrance into...

The trouble with McCarthyism is that once it gets going, it has a habit of ensnaring figures who were not meant to be its original targets. We’re seeing this with the Donald Trump administration’s and...

Review of The Working Sovereign: Labour and Democratic Citizenship by Axel Honneth, translated by Daniel Steuer (Polity Press, 2024). As the United States faces a serious rising economic competitor in China, some Americans are concerned...

On March 8, International Working Women’s Day, the town square in Chiatura, Georgia, was filled with residents. Young girls handed out violets to the women, a traditional gesture of celebration. The crowd gathered, waiting for...

In this monthly roundup on “large-unit labor elections,” Benjamin Y. Fong from the Center for Work and Democracy at Arizona State University will recap all National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) elections of 250 or more...

Customs and Border Protection’s Home app, complete with a “self-deportation reporting feature” for undocumented migrants who plan to leave the United States. It’s a repurposed version of the CBP One app, which the Biden administration...

While the world’s eyes are set on the dismantling of the Euro-Atlantic alliance, Bulgaria seems set to finalize its accession to the eurozone amid an atmosphere of peak anti-politics. The government declares that “membership in...

In the first half of the twentieth century, Cuba was the biggest producer of sugar in the world, and sugar represented 80 percent of the country’s exports. This dependence on a single crop left the...

Does the public have a right to know who exactly is paying to lobby judges to deliver favorable rulings? A committee in charge of federal judiciary rules recently said yes, but some of the most...

For many Australians, there is nothing that epitomizes high summer more than the doof (for those unacquainted with the local dialect, doofs are outdoor dance parties similar to raves). Although pioneering parties like Rainbow Serpent...

The yacht is moored at the mouth of the Miami River, in the long shadows of the city’s luxury hotels and high-rises. It is of Italian design: sleek, imposing, with a flybridge and sundeck and...