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In early October, Shoshan Hassan Mazraani, the head emergency department nurse at the Marjayoun hospital in southern Lebanon, was drinking coffee at work when she saw an Israeli strike hit without warning “directly on the...

The German Foreign Office first announced its guidelines for a “feminist foreign policy” back in March 2023, yet public debate over the meaning of this policy has never been more heated than in the past...

Last Wednesday, Olaf Scholz’s German government became perhaps the first indirect victim of Donald Trump’s election win. It’s not that the American president-elect targeted the coalition — the result of a 2021 deal between Scholz’s...

Review of Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age by Debbie Goldman (University of Illinois Press, 2024) American politicians love to pose as defenders of factory workers threatened by globalization, corporate...

Nearly a decade has passed since Bernie Sanders announced his first presidential run and ignited a democratic socialist electoral wave that has given us Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), the Squad, and democratic socialist officials at every...

If Donald Trump learned anything from his dysfunctional first term, it was that loyalty is significantly more important than competency. After years of chaos and turnover in major cabinet-level positions, and amid comments regarding his...

Review of Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War by Perry Anderson (Verso, 2024) World War I played host to political forces arising from two distinct historical periods. On the battlefields of Europe, the...

Isabella Weber I think there is. It shows in the increasing number of people experiencing food insecurity. We see people queuing up at food banks and the food banks being completely overwhelmed. The president of...

Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire for revenge. On the campaign trail, he joked about being a dictator on “day one” in office, pledged to jail journalists, and threatened to retaliate against political foes...

You learn a lot about a place based on what it allows to become a scandal. During last Wednesday’s Champions League match in Paris pitting Paris-Saint-Germain (PSG) against Atlético de Madrid, PSG ultras unfurled a...

Who’s to blame? That question has animated just about every discussion of Vice President Kamala Harris’s catastrophic loss last week to Donald Trump. The answer has been often refracted through the Democratic Party and its...

Confirming the trend in many countries in 2024, in Lithuania’s general election voters opted for change rather than more of the same. In the two-round contest that ended on October 27, the Lithuanian Social Democratic...