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Many commentators have repeatedly sounded the alarm about declining working-class support for the Democratic Party in 2024, particularly among non-white working-class voters. Those concerns remain real and are part of a decades-long dealignment of working-class...

At every stage in Marco Rubio’s political ascent, David Rivera has been by his side. Twenty years ago, the two Miami-raised Cuban American Republicans earned the nicknames “Batman and Robin” as they rose to power...

Silas Xuereb One clear impact of wealth inequality is on house prices. We’ve seen a huge spike in house prices in the last twenty-five years. And while this benefits a broad section of Canadians, it...

At around 9:30 p.m. on March 14, 2018, in central Rio de Janeiro, a silver Chevrolet Cobalt pulled up alongside a car carrying the city councilor Marielle Franco, her driver Anderson Gomes, and her press...

Interview byNick French This winter has seen historic strikes hit the United States on both coasts. In New York City, 15,000 nurses across three of the city’s largest private sector hospital systems walked out on...

Interview byAshkan Jahangiri Columbia University has been a political flash point from the beginning of Donald Trump’s second term, with the administration launching a legal and financial assault on the university in response to student...

Interview byDora Mengüç Over the past several decades, neoliberalism has hollowed out the social and emotional foundations of political life. As welfare states eroded, precarious labor expanded, and public protections disappeared while a new atmosphere...

Cornel West I think the last thing we want to do is to fetishize any one individual. To fetishize Trump and ascribe to him magical powers as if somehow if he were not here, the...

This weekend, Donald Trump convened right-wing leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean to his Miami golf resort for the “Shield of the Americas” summit. Amid renewed US military aggression in the region, the gathering...

Over the weekend, the Washington Post was the latest to publish a claim that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the threat of launching a war with Iran solo as a way to pressure Donald...

Afshin Matin-Asgari Again, it’s difficult to generalize. Monarchism, as you mentioned, is represented by Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last shah of Iran, who has been living in exile, mostly in the US, for...

Jessie Buckley achieves such a fine and daring visual effect as the reanimated Bride that for a little while there, I thought writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal might really have locked into something interesting with her second...