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Three years ago, Peter Beinart wrote that anti-Palestinian bigotry was so prevalent in establishment discourse that it went by without notice, and that if it was ever actually named and talked about, almost everyone with...

For decades, the Democrats were the party that promised to deliver a new, more progressive social order, with a reputation as the party of the angry “forgotten man” and of all those who hoped for...

As a hurricane intensified by hot ocean water now threatens to destroy the Tampa Bay region, Florida Republicans bankrolled by the fossil fuel industry are pushing legislation that would bar the president from declaring a climate...

In Britain, populism is dead, or so claims much of the country’s pundit class. The Brexiteer wave has subsided, Corbynism has been crushed, and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party only won five seats in July’s...

Vague and incoherent, put together in what seems to be a deliberately anticlimactic design, Joker: Folie à Deux is a slack, overlong bummer of a film with very little in the way of crowd-pleasing genre...

Last week, Hurricane Helene battered the southeastern United States after the storm ravaged the Caribbean and parts of Central America. Making first landfall in the Florida panhandle before raging across another eleven states, the hurricane...

The following article is reprinted from Dollars & Sense. From one point of view, the aphorism “you get what you pay for” does not apply when it comes to US electoral democracy. Enormous amounts of...

In one of his most quoted moments, Karl Marx wrote that “men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under...

Amira Hass How to describe one’s average day under settler colonialism in slow motion, which, in fact, is accelerating by the day? We are still talking about military occupation — one does not exclude the...

When Donald Trump came to power in 2017, I had a worst-case scenario in my head: the new president, easily manipulated, quick to endorse violence, and surrounded by warmongers and various extremists, would use the...

In a press release issued shortly before International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) members walked out last Tuesday, the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) expressed disbelief that the ILA had rejected its latest wage offer for a...

Ruwaida Kamal Amer is a journalist in Khan Younis, Gaza. Her mother has a bone and nerve disease and can’t move if she doesn’t have her medication. Every time Amer can find some, she buys...