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On February 14, Adin Kloetzel lost his job as a trails forestry technician at the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest in southwest Montana, where he hauled supplies into remote areas by mule, cut trails, and supported firefighting...

Tiffany McCoy Yeah, Seattle DSA was critical. We would not have won Initiative 135, the previous initiative [to create the Seattle Social Housing Developer, passed in 2023], without DSA, and we would not have won...

Review of American Socialist: Laurence Gronlund and the Power Behind Revolution by Ryan C. McIlhenny (LSU Press, 2025) Recent months have exposed a stunning paralysis of the broad political center. While the 2024 election fueled...

The new film by Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries, Central Station), Brazil’s most celebrated living director, I’m Still Here has finally arrived at a movie theater near me. The reason it’s playing in wide release...

Astrophysicist Clara Sousa-Silva needs data on Earth’s climate to accurately observe space. Earlier this month, she discovered that crucial climate datasets had disappeared. When DOGE cuts accelerated, more data vanished. A meteor streaks across the...

Jeff Bezos has finally dropped the pretense. The world’s third-richest man has decreed that the Washington Post, which he purchased back in 2013, will no longer publish opinions that challenge free market economics. With a...

On a bright winter afternoon in Hardin County, Kentucky, I drive through a snowy residential neighborhood, rural enough for a bird of prey with a critter in its talons to fly above my windshield. Then,...

The German federal election produced a parliament representing five main parties, plus one seat for regionalists in Schleswig-Holstein. Two parties previously in the Bundestag, namely the neoliberals of the Free Democrats (FDP) and the left-conservative...

The late, great Gene Hackman was a working-class guy from Danville, Illinois, the son of a waitress and a pressman for a local newspaper who deserted the family when young Hackman was just thirteen. An...

While millions of Americans are struggling with a growing consumer debt crisis and surviving paycheck to paycheck, the wealthy are living their best lives — and increasingly so. This stark economic divide is no accident;...

Three days ago, the New York Post reported that Hunter College was looking to hire a scholar in Palestinian studies. The job ad read: We seek a historically grounded scholar who takes a critical lens to...

Within a few minutes into the Oscar-nominated documentary, we see Israeli soldiers barging into a village after a court order is given to demolish Palestinian homes in Masafer Yatta of the occupied southern West Bank....