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“Scholz ditches Lindner.” Three words that pack a punch for Germans, after three years in which Free Democrats (FDP) leader Christian Lindner set an austerian tone for the coalition government. The split between Chancellor Olaf...

For liberals, Donald Trump’s victory this week prompts adjectives like “scary,” “terrifying,” “depressing,” and “demoralizing.” But one word it should not evoke is this: “surprising.” In a downwardly mobile country, Democrats’ rejection of working-class politics — and the party’s...

Kamala Harris didn’t have to start her campaign by distancing herself from her past support for Medicare for All. She didn’t have to answer the most obvious question of all time (how she would be...

Twelve months ago, Giorgia Meloni’s government signed a protocol with Albania to establish two Italian “asylum centers” on the southeast European country’s territory. One, located at the port of Shëngjin, serves as the initial screening...

Striking Boeing machinists started returning to work on Wednesday after voting for a new contract with substantial wage increases. The 33,000 Seattle-area machinists voted 59 percent to accept, just two weeks after two-thirds of them voted...

I often say that the Democrats’ political problem is that they’re a party of capital that has to pretend otherwise for electoral purposes. This time they hardly even pretended. Kamala Harris preferred campaigning with the...

When Boston University graduate students went on strike in April, Stan Sclaroff, the university’s dean of arts and sciences, sent faculty an email with suggestions for keeping their classes on track. As Inside Higher Ed reported, the...

After spending a few days in shell-shocked mode, I started thinking seriously about what went wrong on Tuesday and how we can defeat Trumpism. And I’m here to tell you that the news isn’t all...

If you’re reading this, congratulations: you made it to the conclusion of the 2024 election. Even if you’re understandably upset about Donald Trump’s victory, just arriving at this point with your cognition intact is a...

For years, the Democrats have known that they are losing the white working class. Their complacency has issued from the conviction that they can make up for it by gaining among the college-educated while retaining...

The country and world woke up to a terrifying yet in many ways predictable reality on Wednesday — one that few on the Left and in the Democratic Party are prepared to deal with. By...

There’s a memorable scene in the film The Big Short involving the lightly fictionalized hedge fund manager Mark Baum. Baum is listening in horror as some real estate bros describe all the shady practices that...