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When Chuck Norris died Thursday in Hawaii at the age of eighty-six, the internet, the medium that ultimately defined him more than any film or television role, duly noted his passing with a mix of...

Labor movements in Namibia have been rather fragile over the past few decades, ever since the country gained independence from South Africa in 1990. This was not always the case. Collective labor action, both spontaneous...

Within hours of the September 11, 2001, attacks, pundits scrambled to explain what they signified. “Perhaps,” Naomi Klein wrote days later, 9/11 will “mark the end of the shameful era of the video game war.”...

Imagine you’re at the supermarket one day, but weirdly your card doesn’t work. You try to check your account online, and it doesn’t let you log in. You call the bank, but it tells you...

The morning after the United States and Israel began bombing Iran, Pastor John Hagee of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, began his globally broadcast Sunday sermon with a special note about the “brilliant execution of Operation...

Timothée Chalamet was one of the more discussed Oscars snubs this week. For months since the film’s release, critics have celebrated his performance in Marty Supreme as the work of a young actor well on...

Speaking on a conservative podcast last week, Senator Jon Husted confidently asserted that low-income people can’t handle daily challenges and lack basic budgeting skills. “People living in poverty are just not very experienced at navigating...

In the first six days of war on Iran, the Pentagon spent $11.3 billion in taxpayer funds. By its own estimates, it has burned through approximately $1 billion more every day since. That amounts to...

By the time he died this past Saturday at age ninety-six, Jürgen Habermas had become something of a reviled figure for much of the Left. His liberalism, centered on a belief in communicative rationality, was...

In the battle between democratic socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and centrist New York Governor Kathy Hochul over whether to increase taxes on the state’s superrich, New Yorkers are firmly on the mayor’s...

Over the past four decades, a pervasive pessimism has taken hold on the Left regarding the prospects for meaningful redistribution within capitalist economies. This pessimism has been shared not only by centrist social democratic parties...

“Here in South America, we present ourselves as a region of peace,” Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva declared last week as he hosted South African leader Cyril Ramaphosa, adding that “nobody here has...