The walls have finally closed in on New York City mayor Eric Adams. A five-count federal indictment against Adams, a former police officer who promised to be tough on crime while reforming the police department,...
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During the turbulent 2010s, the steadfast advocates of neoliberal reforms, globalization, and open markets wasted no opportunities to lampoon the rising nationalist danger. Not just Donald Trump, but also figures like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, Italy’s...
There were heady days for the Left this summer when snap elections made the Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) the largest force in the National Assembly. But as fall descends, France is getting quite a different...
November 2, 1909, was “Free Speech Day” in Spokane, Washington. The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) — Wobblies, as they were commonly known — set up a soapbox on the street to denounce the...
At the age of ninety-three, Irfan Habib’s status as one of India’s most important historians is assured. It is simply impossible to understand any aspect of the Indian economy, society, and history without engaging with...
COP16, that is, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, will be held at the end of October in the hot, tropical city of Cali, Colombia. The...
Last night, Missouri state authorities executed Marcellus Williams after the US Supreme Court refused to delay his killing. In 2001, a court convicted Williams for the murder of Felicia Gayle, a forty-two-year-old reporter for the...
From a bird’s-eye view, it looked like a gathering of seafarers circling a totem pole off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. The totem pole in question is an 850 feet tall Vineyard wind turbine, albeit...
The following article is reprinted from Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy, a publication from the Jacobin Foundation. Right now, you can subscribe to the print edition of Catalyst for just $20. As a lonely critic who dared to challenge Federal...
McCall wasn’t used to being denied. The granddaughter of John A. McCall, the president of insurance giant New York Life, she came from rarified stock and soon entered decidedly glamorous circles. Actors James Cagney and...
It would have been easy, a book or two ago, to blame it on age or circumstance: young writer, whiz kid, former debate champion, writes the same characters over and over, likely loosely based on...
It started with one of Donald Trump’s whims: exempting tip income from federal taxes. As is often the case with his “policy” proposals, this one seems like one of those things that often pop into...
