Since the start of his term in Congress, Ohio senator and now-Republican vice presidential nominee J. D. Vance has sponsored two dozen GOP attempts to kill rules pushed by the Biden administration — fighting policies...
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Across the country, fascists are committing horrendous acts of racist violence in broad daylight. In Rotherham and Tamworth, hotels housing asylum seekers were set on fire; in Burnley, Muslim graves were vandalized. On social media, videos are...
The vibes have not been this good for a long time. Only two weeks after President Joe Biden’s decision to end his campaign turned the 2024 election on its head, Vice President Kamala Harris has...
On the tree-lined streets of Northampton, Massachusetts, where I grew up, you can see the evidence of a school funding battle that has raged all spring and summer. Fund our schools, our kids, our future,...
Adam Hilton There are a lot of things that we can point to that appear to be pretty significant continuities between the Biden administration and previous Democratic administrations, or even the two-party Washington consensus. We...
Seventy-nine years after the United States dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, most of us rarely think about nuclear weapons. The oversight is understandable, but mistaken — and dangerous. It’s understandable because while nuclear...
Review of The Letters of Seamus Heaney, edited by Christopher Reid (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2024) “Oil, oil, oil,” wrote the Irish poet Seamus Heaney in early October, 2002: “Bush prefers to go to war...
Such is the debased nature of contemporary American politics that no national elected official who has consistently opposed Israel’s dehumanization and genocidal slaughter of Palestinians has a chance of becoming vice president. But among the...
In the last of his sixty-two pieces for the London Review of Books, written just a couple of months before his death in June 2004, the radical journalist Paul Foot offered some generous, if qualified,...
France Insoumise, created in January 2016 to serve as a vehicle for Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s presidential campaign, is today a force with seventy-one members of the National Assembly and annual public funding of some €5 million....
As Vice President Kamala Harris decides who will join her on the Democratic Party’s 2024 presidential ticket, one man’s name continues to loom over the debate: that of Josh Shapiro, the first-term governor of Pennsylvania...
Just over a year out from Canada’s next federal election, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, well ahead in the polls, is leaning into the ridiculous tradition of labeling political opponents “communists.” This tactic has a...
