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Excerpted from the The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Chinese Communism, edited by Wang Gungwu and Richard Yarrow (Wiley, 2025) “American Marxism exists, it is here and now, and indeed it is pervasive.” So laments Mark...

Germany’s Die Linke was once the shining light of the European left. Created in 2007 as a merger between the postcommunist Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) and a pro-labor breakaway from the Social Democratic Party...

Americans are not happy with the US health care system. For the first time in two decades, a majority of Americans rate US health care as substandard, including a new high calling it “poor.” Nearly...

In late September of this year, the veteran conservative politician Ishiba Shigeru took the reins of government in Japan. It followed his victory in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) contest for party president, which made...

The contradictions at the heart of the State of Israel have had little impact on its success. This can be seen in Israel’s relationship with Africa. Many African states had backed Israel after 1948 in...

Josh Zetumer You’re right that this jumping back and forth between characters who are young and idealistic and characters who are older and more disillusioned is something that we’ve seen in television shows before. You...

Denmark’s parliament recently passed a so-called tripartite green deal, agreed between the agricultural lobby, trade unions in the agricultural and food sector, and the Danish Society for Nature Conservation. Especially attracting international attention is its...

This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the release of James Cameron’s classic sci-fi movie The Terminator. Cameron initially wrote the script as a way of processing the trauma of growing up in a world...

Barring immediate drastic reductions to greenhouse gas emissions, worst-case predictions expect the global temperatures to increase between 3.3 and 5.7 degrees Celsius by 2100. Meanwhile, according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report,...

The United Kingdom is moving toward legalizing medical assistance in dying, modeling its law in part on Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has drawn criticism...

Donald Trump was elected for a second term as president by millions of working-class voters who believe the economy no longer works for them. These voters were largely motivated by standard-of-living issues like inflation, wage...

Donald Trump’s short attention span has a tendency to flit from one issue to the next. But shrewd and shameless use of nationalist politics and xenophobia has been central to and a constant of his...