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On December 27, Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, was kidnapped by Israel Defense Forces during a raid on the besieged hospital. Abu Safiyeh had refused to leave the...

Review of Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States by Sandeep Vaheesan (University of Chicago Press, 2024) What do socialists mean when they call for economic democracy? In socialism’s early history,...

Andrew Murray I don’t think the miracle of 2015 can be repeated in time, if at all. We just had an opinion poll that shows that Labour is now in third place, behind not only...

In 1987, Jean-Marie Le Pen managed to have a photo taken of himself shaking Ronald Reagan’s hand at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). By all accounts Reagan hadn’t specifically agreed to meet the Front...

Just before Christmas in the Loiret, at a quiet farmhouse by the edge of the woods about a two-hour drive southwest of Paris, there was a break-in at the country home of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The...

Homelessness in the United States is now at a record high, according to a new report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The data show that 771,480 people were homeless in 2024...

Sam Friedman When it comes to personal narratives, what was really interesting was the disconnect we could see between the way people perceive their origins and what we could see when we measured their origins...

Marxism has had a huge impact on the study of the past in two distinct, but interrelated ways. On the one hand, Marxist theory has offered a rich conceptual framework (class, mode of production, productive...

If the debut season of the Korean Netflix series Squid Game laid bare the ails of modern capitalism, its highly anticipated second season reflects the challenges to organizing against it. Initially released in 2021, Squid...

Over the last ten years or so, the idea of a vital and virtuous political center that simply must hold in the face of irresponsible, demagogic populism has become one of the great clichés of...

Whenever the history of twentieth-century communism is discussed, it will not be long before you find a particular figure cited with absolute certainty. Writing in the Wall Street Journal on the centenary of the October...

According to CatholicVote president Brian Burch, Catholics played a decisive role in securing Donald Trump’s second term in office. This somewhat historic mobilization might seem like a no-brainer given the church’s view on issues like...