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A Review of Vajpayee: The Ascent of the Hindu Right 1924–1977 (Picador, 2023) by Abhishek Choudhary Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the tenth prime minister of independent India (1999–2004), died on August 16, 2018, at the age...

Thurston Moore That brings a bit of joy to it. It’s the whole Jack Kerouac thing, like holy poverty. Embracing that canon, that lineage. To me, books, records . . . these are documents, and...

This article is adapted from the preface to The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs. the American Empire, second edition, by Matt Kennard (Bloomsbury, 2024). Four years after my book The Racket was first published, I...

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial speech to Congress Wednesday came just days after President Joe Biden announced he would no longer seek reelection and as the death toll — now reaching more than forty thousand — of Palestinians...

The trend toward gig work has increased in recent years, and it’s easy to see why the business class has encouraged this. Gig work is often transitory and isolating, which keeps workers from forming bonds...

In a bipartisan nod to genocide, US lawmakers welcomed Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a genocidal war criminal, into Congress yesterday, making him the first foreign leader to address Congress four times. It was the...

David Brody The Communists . . . that’s a complicated subject. I would start by saying that in the 1930s, given the industrial conditions and the suffering that working people experienced, there were going to...

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) sought a preliminary injunction in a Texas federal district court against the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and its officers, including the NLRB’s administrative law judges (ALJs). The core issue...

Ahead of the general election, figures close to Keir Starmer had briefed journalists on the importance of Labour’s first hundred days in government. There was a small window, they argued, to demonstrate the new government’s...

Vice President Kamala Harris has reminded us all of a key insight into social and political analysis. In what has become a signature catchphrase, none of us just “fell out of a coconut tree.” We...

The voice on the line is warm and reassuring. He knows your name and gives his name, too. After establishing a rapport, perhaps with a joke, he tugs at your heartstrings — and purse strings...

Review of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024) In mid-January 1992 — as the USSR lay in...