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The Trump administration just paused an initiative to get airline passengers higher compensation when carriers lose their luggage or overbook them for a flight. In a regulatory filing submitted today, administration officials announced they would delay...

Sean Starrs There are various ways that the world dominance of American TNCs boosts American state power. The global dominance of Wall Street (financial services in figure two), for example, helps to ensure that the...

On February 3, thousands of New Yorkers gathered outside New York University (NYU) Langone’s Tisch Hospital in Manhattan to protest the hospital system’s decision to stop providing gender-affirming care for transgender youth — a decision...

This piece was first published in Flamman. The two heavily armed brothers were dressed like a masked tactical unit. They broke into the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo at noon on January...

Daniel Bessner Yes, one can even imagine the North Atlantic world as a single polity, in the sense that it has — or imagines itself as having — a shared cultural heritage. These are, after...

Mike Marqusee (1953–2015) wrote several important books about the politics of popular culture, including Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the 1960s. In this extract from Wicked Messenger, Marqusee discusses the famously controversial performance by Dylan...

Review of Travellers of the World Revolution: A Global History of the Communist International by Brigitte Studer (Verso Books, 2023) The Communist International was conceived in March 1919 amid the siege conditions of revolutionary Russia,...

Silicon Valley is moving sharply and openly to the right. In a presidential inauguration where the best seats were essentially sold at auction, tech billionaires and CEOs from Apple, Amazon, Google, and Meta paid premiums...

One month in, the basic gambit of the second Trump administration seems to be that they think you’re stupid. Donald Trump’s team seems convinced they can ignore the long-standing problems that have made normal life...

In August of last year, I wrote a piece for the New York Times in which I argued that the Starbucks unionization campaign illustrates the inherent limitations of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in facilitating mass...

In the 1960s, leftist filmmakers from France to Japan revolutionized the documentary. Anti-fascism was not just the heritage of past generations but a message carried forward by the avant-garde on-screen. French director Agnès Varda. (Jacques...

In 1933, two young members of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA), Reginald “Shorty” Patullo and Noel Counihan, initiated one of the most successful working-class protests to take place in Australia during the Great Depression....