The Democratic Party has failed to earn the support of what was once its working-class base. This ought to be a moment of reckoning for the party. The anger it faces is justified and necessary...
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Review of Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture by Andrew deWaard (University of California Press, 2024) The central notion of Andrew deWaard’s enlightening book, Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture, is this: there...
Nancy MacLean’s newly reissued Behind the Mask of Chivalry, three decades after its original appearance, is guaranteed to interest a new generation of scholars and activists seeking to understand the second iteration of the Ku...
The French archipelago of Mayotte, located between mainland Africa’s east coast and northern Madagascar, was hit last week by the strongest cyclone in nearly a century. Winds howling above 220 kilometers per hour (136 miles...
The shocking murder of health insurer UnitedHealthcare (UHC) CEO Brian Thompson has ignited a fierce debate about the United States’ uniquely for-profit, insurer-dominated health care system, with the assassin having been apparently motivated by rage...
On October 10, sporting a new beard but fit and tough as always, Julio César Macías López — known as César Montes — the last Central American comandante, walked out of Guatemalan prison. After almost...
During the first Republican debate in 2015, Donald Trump positioned himself as a bold truth-teller, almost a whistleblower, about the corrupt influence he’d exercised on politicians as a wealthy donor. The moderators asked why he’d...
Review of América del Norte by Nicolás Medina Mora (Soho Press, 2024) Full disclosure: Nicolás Medina Mora once did a mean tweet about my book. He hadn’t read it, but he criticized it publicly anyway,...
The signs that something unusual was afoot in Maspeth, Queens, on Monday morning could be seen even before reaching the hulking structure that is DBK4, Amazon’s delivery stations, where drivers load up their vans with...
One of Karl Marx’s most persistent points, from “On the Jewish Question” forward, is that despite the formal freedoms that we enjoy in a liberal state — the right to freedom of speech, for example,...
Îlham Ehmed It remains to be seen how serious this stance is and whether it will be implemented. The transitional government led by HTS must not become the new regime. A new transitional government must...
With Justin Trudeau’s cabinet in revolt, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre will likely be Canada’s next prime minister. Liberals and leftists lampoon him for his dorky anti-charisma, fearmongering about crime, and plans to overthrow the...
