President Donald Trump started his second term with his sights set on Greenland. When Trump first proposed buying the arctic nation during his first administration, it was treated like a joke. But in a phone call last week with...
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On Wednesday, former Arizona senator Kyrsten Sinema announced her first post-congressional plans: serving as an adviser to Coinbase, a $73 billion cryptocurrency exchange platform. The move comes after Sinema took nearly $10,000 from the company and tens...
Just how far will Amazon go to throttle unions? The corporate behemoth, valued at a staggering $2.47 trillion, is notorious for its union-busting. Amazon workers at the massive JFK8 warehouse voted for their union in...
In a 1985 memo to the White House’s top lawyer, now chief justice John Roberts wrote that a president may not block congressionally required spending — a declaration on a major legal question that now...
The announcement by the new Donald Trump administration to suspend foreign aid spending — approximately $68 billion annually — has sent shock waves across the world. This decision will not only affect military aid, which...
Donald Trump is trying to shock and awe the workers’ movement (and everyone else) into submission. On the labor rights front, this took the form of a late Monday night firing of pro-union National Labor...
In 1950, Nevada Democratic senator Pat McCarran said he wanted to save the United States from communism and “Jewish interests.” His solution was the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, known as...
In the history of modern states, no person has been able to convert their wealth into such global political influence. By buying Twitter, now rebadged X, Elon Musk has already hoisted himself into the US...
Sometimes, despite our best intentions, things go terribly wrong. For leftists in particular, this experience is sadly familiar — as the German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin observed in 1940, history appears as “one single...
It is commonplace to regard the US South as a political backwater. Many liberals see Southerners as irredeemable red-state voters, mired in racist parochialism or bible-thumping backwardness. It is of course true that many states...
This is an extract from The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (and a Radical Plan to Rebuild It), now available from Verso Books. Capitalist property relations, whose basic feature is the private control of...
Ted Fertik I think it’s not yet clear what the attitude of the Republican Party will be toward industrial policy and manufacturing. It is quite clear that they do not believe that reducing carbon emissions...
