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During a recent appearance on The Daily Show, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz touted the broad coalition supporting him and his running mate, Kamala Harris. “Dick Cheney, Bernie Sanders, Taylor Swift . . .”...

In Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, billboards for fast-food chains and home-improvement stores have given way to politics. Slogans for parties vying for votes in Saturday’s parliamentary elections are everywhere. The media is no different — pro-government...

After forty days on strike, 33,000 Machinists rejected an improved contract offer from Boeing by 64 percent on Wednesday. The offer included a 35 percent wage increase over four years. Members of the International Association...

“There is hope.” This was one of the most repeated sentences when talking to delegates at Die Linke’s national congress last weekend, as the left-wing party convened in Halle, in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt....

Review of Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance by Melinda Cooper (Zone Books, 2024) The long 1970s crisis demonstrated that Keynesian “managed capitalism” was no longer viable. The accumulating contradictions of that order demanded a...

In early May, on a blue-sky day in Jefferson City, Missouri’s Secretary of State’s Office had a few unlikely visitors: Louie the blue bear, Fredbird the cardinal, and Sluggerrr the lion, some of the state’s furriest,...

Previously arrested several times for “anti-India” activities, twenty-three-year-old Ikhlas Amin Bhat, a resident of Anantnag, campaigned for an independent candidate in Kashmir’s first legislative assembly election in ten years. “My family has always boycotted polls,...

When New York became the first city in the country to mandate that rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft pay their drivers a minimum wage, it seemed like a major win. Low, unpredictable wages are...

“They don’t admit it officially, but everyone knows those guys work for the company. And they are very aggressive toward us strikers,” thirty-year-old trade unionist Tamar Ansiani explains. She’s nodding toward a group of men...

This month, when Emmanuel Macron’s newly chosen prime minister, Michel Barnier, laid out his first government agenda to the National Assembly, much attention was naturally focused on the budget and immigration. But a seemingly throwaway...

Some alarming news is brewing for the Left. It turns out that after a brief flirtation with progressive and socialist politics, the United States is now turning back to the right. “Five years ago, as...

Thanks to a provision buried in the tax code, Elon Musk could reap one of the largest personalized tax breaks in American history if former president Donald Trump wins the 2024 election and fulfills his pledge...