At the end of last week and after several delays, a first shipment of monkeypox, or mpox, vaccine donations finally arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). While the Big Pharma corporations and the Western...
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The socialist movement in the United States finds itself in a conundrum. On the one hand, Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaigns in 2016 and 2020 sparked a rebirth of socialist organizing. The number of elected socialist...
Last night, it felt like the country went backward. No, not because of Donald Trump’s erratic and meandering performance, though that will deservedly get most of the attention today. Trump gave a masterclass in how...
After a long battle in the courts, Apple has lost a landmark tax case brought against the US tech giant by EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager. Vestager’s office ordered the world’s biggest company to pay...
US presidential debates rarely feature much in the way of substantive policy debate, and last night’s showdown between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris was no different. Commentators praised Vice President Harris’s style, exemplified in her...
Donald Trump may not have entirely killed satire, but he’s helped sunder it into two countervailing forces, neither of which are very funny. The liberals used to be the class clowns. But while the counterculture...
Last week, as the devastating war in Gaza neared its one-year mark, Israel’s largest labor federation declared a general strike. This almost unprecedented declaration was a response to growing pressure on the powerful federation to...
In last night’s debate, Kamala Harris rightly insisted that much of the country is exhausted by and ready to move on from Trump. But we deserve to move on to something better and more substantive...
In honor of James Earl Jones, who just died at age ninety-three, we’re all calling up memories of our favorite Jones performances. These memories probably involve his magnificently deep, rumbling voice. As Darth Vader in...
Nelson Lichtenstein Well, some might say it was a “spontaneous” action, but I will not use the word spontaneous. I want to say a quick word about spontaneity. I will not use it. I think...
As the Uncommitted delegates pushed for a Palestinian speaker at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) last month, Georgia state representative Ruwa Romman emerged as the top contender. As someone willing to endorse Vice President Kamala...
“Democracy is not just the art of accepting that you’ve won, it’s also the humility of accepting that you’ve lost,” insists Jean-Luc Mélenchon. He was speaking on Saturday at the first demonstration since President Emmanuel...
