When Deborah Rodarte arrives for her shift at the Swift Beef Co. plant outside Greeley, Colorado, owned by JBS USA, the first thing she does is gear up. Donning a hard hat and protective equipment,...
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This morning, the Guardian’s Amy Hawkins offers a delightful split-screen portrait of global consciousness, highlighting two trends playing out in parallel on US and Chinese social media. On US platforms like TikTok and Instagram, “young people are diving...
The offices of Arion Press, the last vertically integrated bookmaker in the United States, are tucked into a museum-like building with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s a clear summer weeknight, and I’m...
Review of Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage by Heather Ann Thompson (Pantheon, 2026) On December 22, 1984, a pale, dweeby, thirty-seven-year-old white man named...
Bruno Kreisky was Austria’s longest-serving chancellor. No other postwar Austrian politician elicits the same amount of reminiscing, stories, myths, and anecdotes. Today, over forty years after his days as chancellor, he looms so large that...
Typically, municipal elections tend to remain local affairs. Safety and security, cleanliness, city budgets, and access to services such as health care and education top the list of civic concerns in selecting mayors. This year...
It’s increasingly difficult for US political commentators to neglect the centrality of socialism to the country’s affairs. We now see a spate of polling results and other commentary testifying to the popularity of socialist ideas,...
After more than seventy years writing and thinking about democracy, capitalism, and the possibility of emancipatory politics, the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas died on Friday, age ninety-six. For a generation of political theorists and philosophers,...
The investment portfolio of the interim US Attorney for the Southern District of New York shows financial stakes in Epstein-associated financial institutions and Venezuelan oil interests. The Trump appointee stands to win big from his...
Another humiliation awaits Ireland’s premier Micheál Martin in the coming days at the hands of the Trump administration. At last year’s St Patrick’s Day event in the White House, an annual jamboree of Irish groveling...
If there was still any doubt about our coordinates after a decade of shocks to the normal order of things, the disorientating opening of this year has confirmed that we are not in Kansas anymore....
Hasan Piker It’s true. That’s why I think you don’t necessarily have to be charismatic if we do have elections. I don’t think J. D. Vance is capable of leading the Trump train. But if...
