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Financial institutions like to pay lip service to the climate catastrophe to burnish their public image. Doubtless, that’s what BlackRock chair Larry Fink, who oversees more money than the combined GDPs of Japan and Germany,...

As liberal thought has evolved to address capitalism’s flaws, some argue it has caught up with Marxism, rendering it irrelevant. Vivek Chibber argues that liberalism may diagnose capitalism’s injustices, but Marxism gives us the tools...

For ten years, Thuringia was the only state in Germany with a president from left-wing party Die Linke. That was until September 1, when it fell to just fourth place in elections to the state...

Interview by Wendy Brown The language of Karl Marx’s Capital, which was originally published in 1867, has shaped the political imagination of socialism’s proponents as well as its critics. From the opening discussion of the...

There have been many low points in the course of President Joe Biden’s unconditional backing of Israel’s razing of Gaza the past year — the mass murder of tens of thousands of Palestinians first among...

Review of The Burning Earth: A History by Sunil Amrith (W. W. Norton and Co., 2024) “For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to dangerous chemicals,...

Justine Firnhaber-Baker Guillaume Calle, who they elected after the first incident, was known as the general captain of the countryside — the captain of the area around the city of Beauvais, which was the Jacquerie’s...

Vice-presidential candidate Sen. J. D. Vance (R-OH) and other Republicans are spearheading a lawsuit aiming to prompt the Supreme Court to move beyond its landmark Citizens United decision and tear down some of the last...

One sweltering hot morning in early August, Italian beach operators organized a two-hour “strike.” The demand: a pathetic attempt to reassert their generational right to occupy public coasts well past their due date. Italian law...

California lawmakers had a chance to pass first-in-the-nation legislation that would have forced Google, Meta, and other tech firms to pay ongoing fees for earning billions from using news outlets’ content while journalism operations have...

It’s a late August afternoon in Portland, Maine, and the crispness in the air makes it clear that, up here, summer is fading fast. But the sobriety of autumn hasn’t hit yet: it’s Elvis Night...

Born in Egypt, Henri Curiel spent much of his active political life in France, where he was the guiding force behind the Solidarity organization, a group that provided assistance to revolutionary movements in countries like...