Today Israeli forces killed Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish-US citizen, in the West Bank, shooting her in the head as she protested one of the country’s growing and accelerating illegal settlements in the Palestinian territory....
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Review of Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Scribner, 2024) In the late 1970s, when Michael Bettaney, a fascist sympathizer who made the familiar British journey from Oxford to MI5, was pulled over. Drunk and out...
This week, in Spring Hill, Tennessee, just south of Nashville, roughly one thousand workers at Ultium Cells LLC, an electric vehicle (EV) plant jointly run by General Motors and LG Energy Solution of Korea, joined...
As results poured in from the first round of France’s elections on June 30, veteran Gaullist politician Michel Barnier sounded the alarm. His Les Républicains seemed faced for a debacle, with under 7 percent of...
The first debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will be on September 10 at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, an institution designed to “disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis...
During the golden age of the Village Voice, New York’s genre-defining alt-weekly, journalists Jack Newfield and Tom Robbins compiled annual lists of the city’s worst landlords to run in the paper. The feature’s popularity led...
Nick Dearden When you look at COVID, it is an example that we need to learn from in terms of how we deal with other crises, because as bad as the pandemic was, the climate...
The recent revocation of the Jewish National Fund’s (JNF) charitable status may be the most important Palestine solidarity victory in Canadian history. The grassroots win is a boost to the global Stop the JNF campaign...
Global geopolitics is currently marked by extraordinary tensions and armed conflicts raising the threat of world war — above all, in Ukraine, the Middle East, and Taiwan. Since the early 2010s, the disposition of leading...
Last fall, Emily Krieger, a mother in Bozeman, Montana, began to wonder about the unending fees she was paying to provide her two children lunch money at their local public school. A cafeteria lunch at...
On August 6, 1957, St Louis mayor Raymond R. Tucker, the quintessential technocrat, sourly watched the votes get tallied. His initiative, backed by the city’s business elite, to amend the city charter in order to...
The following is an extract from How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-Feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy by Cédric Durand, now available from Verso Books. If the “new spirit of capitalism” analyzed by Luc Boltanski...
