When Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA director John Ratcliffe went before Congress last week, they were grilled about the war in Iran. The nature of the grilling was revealing, as many Democrats...
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The Trump administration is quietly advancing a sweeping new contracting clause that would empower federal officials to force artificial intelligence companies to scrap safety protocols, eliminate privacy protections, and follow other Trump directives as a condition of doing business...
Out east in Maine, the polls show Graham Platner, a union-recruited oysterman, trouncing both current State Governor Janet Mills, the establishment Democrat pick, and Susan Collins, the incumbent Republican senator. It’s not just blue states...
“I think it’s a victory like the partisan struggle or the narrow victory in the referendum for the Republic [over] the monarchy [in 1946].” An enthused Giovanni Bachelet, a leader of the successful “No” campaign...
For many Americans, and indeed the wider world, Canadian Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre’s appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast was probably their first exposure to his particular brand of Canadian neoliberalism. While Poilievre is no...
In the annals of British political history, the image of Labour leader Neil Kinnock denouncing the “grotesque chaos” of Liverpool’s local government at his party’s conference in 1985 looms large. According to official memory, this...
Review of Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization Without Political Consequences by Anton Jäger (Verso, 2026). In a particularly memorable scene from Eddington (2025), set during the George Floyd protests of 2020, high school student Brian (Cameron Mann)...
Economist Ann Pettifor explains how America’s industrial decline has its roots in the dismantling of the international monetary system established at Bretton Woods and in the rise of a global financial system that prioritizes capital...
Skiing, more than ever before, has become a pastime for the elite. Single-day lift tickets at popular resorts now regularly exceed $300, prices that haven’t fallen even as ski slopes in the West suffer through...
The Trump administration has assured the American people that the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro on January 3 was essential to their safety and national security. Officials tried tying Maduro’s regime to gangs and drugs...
Review of Six Minutes to Winter by Mark Lynas (Bloomsbury, 2025). There are so many low-quality, kitsch-militarist, cringe aspects to the past several weeks’ bumble toward an AI-enabled, nuclear-curious World War III — or at...
Max Décharné Absolutely. And there were always racetrack gangs — in the 1920s and ’30s, the dodgy people who would make money out of the business of horse racing. Gambling at racetracks was legal in...
