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Owing to the work of best-selling psychologists Jean Twenge and Jonathan Haidt, what was once considered debatable has become widely acknowledged: mental health, particularly among young people, is deteriorating in many Western countries. The evidence...

Since February 2023, artist, university lecturer, and internet culture writer Joshua Citarella has been conducting interviews with a wide array of subjects who have formed their politics out of internet subcultures. It would be a...

Last week, two major events dominated Brazilian public discourse: the G20 summit, and the exposure of an assassination plot that targeted the country’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Taking place from November 18 to...

Interview by Micah Uetricht Few words are more central to the left tradition, and uttered and sung by leftists more frequently, than “solidarity.” The concept is at the heart of any kind of progressive or...

This year’s presidential election hinged on a few hundred thousand voters across a handful of key swing states, and no one can claim to have known the outcome in advance. Yet the tectonic shift of...

The winner of the 2024 Berlinale Documentary Award, No Other Land, still doesn’t have a US distributor, even though it is being screened at cinemas and film festivals all across the globe and has received...

The Democratic Party spent the past three years telling voters that Donald Trump was a dangerous authoritarian, a literal fascist who would be a dictator on day one and whose election would mean the end...

Trump’s first term was an embarrassment for the far right and a victory for the center. He couldn’t even finish building the wall. Not just “the liberal establishment,” but the Republican Party prevented him from...

For almost two weeks, 55,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) have been striking against concessions demanded by Canada Post. The CUPW is fighting for wage increases that match inflation, pension protection,...

For the last year, private prison companies and corporate interests have been quietly lobbying to place millions of immigrants under electronic surveillance, according to records uncovered by the Lever. Now that a second Trump administration will...

“I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am a Christian, and you can’t take that away from me.” In Italy, these words are perhaps Giorgia Meloni’s most...

Judges will soon deliberate on one of France’s most charged corruption cases in recent memory, when two months of court hearings over allegations against Marine Le Pen and her Rassemblement National end this Wednesday. The...