The Apprentice is a better movie than I expected, with memorable performances by Sebastian Stan as a much younger Donald Trump and Jeremy Strong as notoriously corrupt lawyer Roy Cohn, the mentor who did so...
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On a Saturday evening last spring, Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA) cochair Claudia Jimenez hosted a high-spirited rally and party with two hundred supporters of her reelection campaign for the Richmond City Council. Jimenez is a...
Eleven days ago, Israel began a bombing campaign targeting the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, which has been home to over one hundred thousand Palestinians. Footage that Israeli soldiers — seemingly proud of the...
Since Vice President Kamala Harris took the reins at the top of the Democratic ticket in late July, she has repeatedly declared: “We’re the underdogs.” Even after a stretch of positive media coverage, a widely praised Democratic National Convention, and...
A completely new doctrine of counterinsurgency emerged largely in response to these questions. Peterson argues that the French state, contrary to its own propaganda, was not necessarily a purely reactive power helplessly trying to claw...
The agglomeration of Third Way politics and the technosphere is one of the more insidious developments of our time. It’s as close to a real-life Borg as we’ve yet seen outside the fictional universe of...
West Virginia governor James C. Justice II seeks to fill the Senate seat left open by Joe Manchin’s retirement. “Big Jim” Justice, like Manchin, is a coal executive and former Democrat. But in contrast to...
Rashid Khalidi The situation of the Palestinian people is extraordinarily grim. I don’t remember the Nakba — I was born in November 1948, by which time it was pretty much over, and I wasn’t conscious...
This is an extract from Everything to Play For: How Videogames Are Changing the World by Marijam Did, now available from Verso Books. By the 1990s, video games were mainstream, both as a creative product...
Joseph Daher There were several levels to this decision. First, before the outbreak of the genocidal war of the State of Israel against the population of the Gaza Strip, the strengthening of the alliance between...
You always got the sense that the Democratic Party resented having to learn anything from losing in 2016. There’s no doubt that all the excuse-making that followed — blaming Russia, James Comey, the media, anyone...
Fredric Jameson died last month at the age of ninety, after an extraordinarily prolific career as the leading Marxist cultural theorist of his age. The following text was Jameson’s introduction to The Years of Theory:...
