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It’s said that the Chicago philosophy professor Leo Strauss liked to drop his smoking paraphernalia from the table to test whether his doctoral students would pick it up for him. If this doesn’t cast him...

The Teamsters are spinning off momentum from recent organizing fights to new battle fronts across Amazon’s logistics chain. A group of one hundred warehouse workers at DCK6, an Amazon delivery station in San Francisco, marched on company...

As a helicopter encircles the ceaseless Afghan landscape, a tall, muscular, shirtless man crouches behind a craggy peak, carefully fitting a sharp arrow into its shaft. Suddenly he emerges, making eye contact with a terrified...

Peter Mertens I don’t think protectionism is the answer, but what has happened over the last five years, and especially since Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine, is that Europe has become more and more economically...

In recent years, the term dunkelflaute (“dark doldrums”) has entered the political discourse in Germany. It refers to a period of consecutive days or weeks during which renewable energy sources generate low or minimal energy. It...

Review of No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States by Erwin Chemerinsky (Liveright, 2024) Criticism of the US Constitution’s antimajoritarian and undemocratic nature has long been a staple of left-wing thought and commentary....

Interview by Ben Mabie Workers have been in crisis for decades. Stagnant wages have meant a declining standard of living, leading to social catastrophe. Declining life expectancy, rising alienation and estrangement, astronomical rates of violence...

Democratic forces in Myanmar have been fighting for more than three years against a brutal military junta supported by China and Russia. Trade unions are a crucial part of the resistance movement, and labor activists...

During the recent East and Gulf Coast longshore workers’ strike, several news outlets published finger-wagging headlines like “Striking Dockworkers Are Top Earners—When They Work” and “Many Dockworkers Make $150,000 or More. Why They’re Going on...

This summer, Sinn Féin faced two significant electoral tests for its immediate political ambitions. In the North of Ireland, things went according to plan as Sinn Féin overtook the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to become...

A new Center for Working Class Politics (CWCP) / YouGov poll conducted between September 24 and October 2 finds 46.8% of registered voters in Pennsylvania support Vice President Kamala Harris while 44.7% support former president...

For twelve months since last October, US leaders have cheered on Israel’s relentless bombardment of Gaza, even as the genocide there — funded and armed by the United States — has killed over forty thousand...