There are decades when weeks happen and weeks when decades happen, goes an aphorism misattributed to Vladimir Lenin. The fortnight between J. D. Vance’s broadside against Europe at the Munich Security Conference, and Vance and...
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Donald Trump’s long State of the Union reached new levels of horror and mendacity. Some House Democrats protested by dressing all in pink or waving signs that said simply “False” when the president said something...
US taxpayers spent an estimated $6 billion researching, developing, and implementing new blockbuster weight-loss drugs, according to new data shared with the Lever. Yet Americans are now paying pharmaceutical giants — including one in Denmark — up...
In the wake of the Democrats’ devastating election loss to Donald Trump, everyone is trying to figure out how to rebuild a broad coalition of working-class voters that the party, shockingly, lost to a Republican...
If you want to know why seventy-seven million people voted for Donald Trump, don’t assume. Just ask them. As the election postmortems attest, there’s no single reason Trump won, but one common explanation stands out...
“I think the Greens have a fundamental contradiction. They advocate degrowth without saying so. . . . But if you want degrowth, if you want agro-ecology, there’d have to be one or two million more...
During parts of his address to a joint session of Congress last night, Donald Trump sounded like a comic book villain. Referencing the assassination attempt he survived last summer, he said that he believed he’d...
In 1960, a young Robert Zimmerman — who had begun to call himself “Bob Dylan” — journeyed from the icy flatlands of Minnesota to New Jersey on a pilgrimage. His destination: the bedside of his...
On February 13, the Australian government’s peak arts body, Creative Australia, rescinded an invitation to artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino to represent Australia at the 2026 Venice Biennale. The board justified its “unanimous”...
When a private equity giant bought California-based grocery chain Cardenas Markets in 2022, grocery workers like Maria Vargas saw their hours slashed. “I can’t cover my expenses anymore,” said Vargas, who, like almost a third of...
In the 1994 midterms, Republicans swept Congress, taking both the House and the Senate, as well as the majority of state legislatures and governorships. Conservatives and liberals alike credited talk radio for “turning the tide”...
Mahra was just thirty-one years old when she was forced to seek refuge in a camp. A mother of four, and expecting a fifth, Mahra was one of 4.5 million people in Yemen displaced by...
