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In 2018, right-wing commentator Dave Rubin went on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. Rubin, at that point, was calling himself a libertarian. Rogan asked him about it, and he started going on about how the...

The trial involves three separate criminal cases. In the first of these, the so-called Case 1000, Netanyahu is charged with fraud and breach of trust, having allegedly received gifts of expensive cigars, as well as...

Each holiday season, an estimated 125 million people make the pilgrimage to Rockefeller Center in New York City to catch a glimpse of the iconic Christmas tree. Having just made the journey ourselves, we can...

You probably know that the fast-food business in the United States operates on a franchise model. It works like this: an entrepreneur, called the “franchisee,” pays a big corporation with a recognized brand like McDonald’s...

The US government originally put sanctions on Syria as punishment for dictator Bashar al-Assad, his autocratic rule, and his brutalization of his own people. In practice, however, these sanctions primarily crushed the ordinary Syrians they...

For years before the shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, regulators unsuccessfully fought to enforce antitrust regulation against the growing health care giant. In 2022, the Justice Department sued to stop the insurer’s parent company from a...

In recent years, Kerala, a southern Indian state long governed by the Left, has reportedly seen cases of gold smuggling and transactions of illegal, unregulated money. Commenting on the issue in a recent interview, the...

Grace Blakeley In the introduction, I talk about how the neoliberal project was based on what [Friedrich] Hayek called a “double truth.” He basically says that we will need to present these ideas as about...

The history of working-class organizing in the United States is full of examples of immigrant resistance to mass deportation, sweeps, and other tactics. Time and again, immigrant worker activity has changed the course of society....

How many of the goods that you own would you consider indispensable? And how many are unnecessary? This is not merely a personal question; it is a political one. Goods are made of stuff taken...

Review of Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by J. Bradford DeLong (Basic Books, 2022) In his biography of Eric Hobsbawm, Richard J. Evans describes a heated 1988 phone conversation between...

In October, a historic industrial dispute by veterinary workers in South Wales in the UK suffered a devastating setback, with the employer VetPartners announcing the sudden closure of four clinics where staff had been agitating...