From France to South Korea, there are multiplying signs of democratic crisis. As Donald Trump takes office for the second time, surrounded by a clique of far-right billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, it...
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It’s increasingly likely that your family doctor is now affiliated with the hospital conglomerates or Wall Street firms taking over the American health care system — and if so, new research suggests you’re likely being...
While running for US Senate in Nebraska, working-class candidate Dan Osborn characterized the Senate as “a country club of millionaires that work for billionaires.” In November, he almost crashed their party. Osborn, a forty-nine-year-old former...
If the German political class generally pays limited attention to Austrian politics, its southern neighbor’s convulsed start to the year has forced them to ask what it means for Germany. After Chancellor Karl Nehammer from...
Monday was, as hard as this may be to remember, Martin Luther King Jr Day. An enormous number of schools all around the country were either closed or had assemblies where students heard about the...
On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump signed a blizzard of executive orders on everything from the environment to immigration — and nearly two-thirds of them came straight from Project 2025, the...
As promised, Donald Trump has kicked off his presidency with a show of “speed and strength.” Citing what he has called a “massive” mandate, complete with a “powerful win in all seven swing states and...
France’s political dynamic, and the prospects for the Left within it, should be read within the broader trajectory of the country’s neoliberal paradigm. Now dominant for over four decades, this paradigm is built on pillars...
Everyone knows that firefighting is a dangerous job — jumping into burning buildings is not for the faint of heart. And because of the inherent risks and the important role they play for the public,...
As midday approaches in Damascus, Syria’s capital, thousands of people from all corners of the country converge on Umayyad Square, the city’s political and geographical heart. The square, once dominated by ministries of the ousted...
A Bitcoin advocacy group pushing President Donald Trump to stockpile massive amounts of cryptocurrency and state-level efforts to do the same is run by right-wing fossil fuel operatives fighting to dismantle environmental regulations, including the...
It was a cold morning in November 2023 when Rawan Abu Safiya found herself sitting alone in her sister’s guest room, displaced in northern Gaza. Suddenly, the shelling of a tank obliterated the space she...
