A man burned alive. A country riven by fire, sword, and destruction. Violence fanned by religious bigotry. Mass protests and innovative social experiments. All of this occurred in late medieval Bohemia, where a localized revolt...
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The results of India’s national elections, announced at the beginning of June, cast doubt on the accuracy of forecasts which had unanimously predicted that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) — the outgoing coalition led by...
Greece has adopted a voluntary six-day workweek for businesses that offer round-the-clock services. “Voluntary” applies, of course, to the business, not the worker. That means bosses can force workers to come in for a sixth...
When someone drowns, we gather in the Parc de Richelieu. We arrange ourselves in a circle. Somebody might bring a microphone and speaker. Behind us, statues of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle stare into...
Corporate backers of the Donald Trump campaign have tipped their hand. In “Project 2025: Presidential Transition Project,” the Heritage Foundation unveiled its 900-page wish list for a new Trump presidency and a compliant Supreme Court....
The recent protest movement by the students in Bangladesh is an important political turning point for the country. The impacts are being felt beyond the country’s national frontiers, and many have presented it as a...
A new study found the amount of pesticides used on farms was strongly associated with the incidence of many cancers — not only for farmers and their families, but for entire communities. It comes on...
Up until now, despite billions of dollars and unmeasurable institutional power on its side, the ruling class has struggled to unseat the Squad, the bloc of eight democratic socialists and progressives in Congress elected in...
It’s not hard to become disillusioned with academia in the age of late neoliberalism — especially if you are, like myself, an “early career” academic hopping from one temporary contract to another. The rat race...
As Microsoft faces intensifying federal scrutiny, one of the company’s billionaire Democratic donors is now pressuring the party’s presumptive presidential nominee Kamala Harris to fire the government’s top antitrust regulator. The consumer watchdog has been...
With nearly forty thousand Palestinians killed by Israel’s response to the October 7 Hamas assault, the war in Gaza has proven Joseph Stalin’s old adage that one death is a tragedy and a thousand mere...
Review of Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum (Penguin, 2024) For some time now, Anne Applebaum, a journalist, public historian, and devoted anti-communist, has felt uncomfortable among her...
