Michel Barnier has no mandate to “unwind what has been achieved” since 2017, Emmanuel Macron told allies this week, as a rift appeared between the president and his new prime minister. On September 5, Macron...
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One of the least controversial things you can say about the first volume of Capital, Karl Marx’s sprawling, neologizing, polymathic masterpiece, is that it poses significant translation challenges. Over the years, some of the challenges...
On August 22, Canadian rail workers represented by the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference (TCRC) spent a brief moment on the picket lines before the Canadian Liberal government intervened to end the work stoppages and force...
Ten years ago today, on September 21, 2014, the movement widely known as the Huthis — officially titled Ansar Allah — took over Yemen’s capital, Sanaa. Millions of Yemenis have now lived under their iron-fisted...
When Keir Starmer scrapped the Tories’ disastrous Rwanda deportations deal within days of assuming office, there was a sigh of relief. Many welcomed what seemed to be a decisive shift away from the previous government’s...
It’s hard to think of anything that more perfectly sums up everything warped and wrong with the US immigration debate than the ongoing row over Haitian migrants in an Ohio town. In case you haven’t...
They’re burning the modern Library of Alexandria. That’s one way to describe the recent ruling of the Second Circuit US Court of Appeals against the Internet Archive (IA). The court sided with big-name publishers like...
Since April, the Freedom Flotilla has been stuck in Turkey’s Haydarpaşa port. Made up of three ships, and manned by five hundred Palestine solidarity activists from all over the world, it is carrying five thousand...
This is probably the craziest time in New York City politics in a while. Last week, the FBI seized the cell phones and computers of top officials in Mayor Eric Adams’s administration, as part of...
The creation of the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) prompted debate over whether her new party would help or hinder the rise of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). Even before the BSW was officially founded,...
As a junior Democratic senator in 2019, Vice President Kamala Harris took direct aim at dark money, cosponsoring election reforms that would have revealed the identities of the megadonors behind these secretive efforts to sway...
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been in the headlines a lot this past week. Some good news: the board ordered Starbucks to reopen the stores it illegally closed in Ithaca as retaliation for unionizing. Much...
