The triumph and tragedy of Joe Biden’s life is that he got exactly what he wanted. It’s not true that he ran in 2020 because he felt duty-bound to do so after seeing white supremacists...
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Watching International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) president Sean O’Brien headline the first night of the Republican National Convention (RNC) last week raised a lot of questions. Delegates of the party, whose platform is devoted to...
With President Joe Biden’s shock exit from the presidential race, the doors have opened up to an array of ambitious Democratic politicians who thought their time was four years from now. Already, large segments of...
Joe Biden has never been the greatest orator or had the strongest political backbone, but he has always displayed one important skill throughout his decades in office: representing the center of the Democratic Party, wherever...
Just over three weeks ago, Joe Biden and Donald Trump met for a debate. The most devastating moment was when Biden said, “I’m going to continue to move until we get the total ban on...
On Sunday, June 2, former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum won a resounding victory to become the first woman president in Mexican history. The thirty-two-point drubbing of her conservative opponent, Xóchitl Gálvez — the second...
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden called on Congress to cap rent increases at 5 percent — the first time a sitting president has embraced rent control since Richard Nixon implemented widespread price control measures amid...
A little more than a year before Microsoft’s systems crashed on Friday, creating global chaos in the banking, airline, and emergency service industries, the company pushed back against regulators investigating the risks of a handful...
Housing crises persist in the United States and Canada. Most of us have experienced housing stress or know someone who has, and we’re all sick to death of it. While politicians often claim to be...
In January, a report on the financial sustainability of the UK’s Higher Education sector revealed that 40 percent of the country’s universities were forecasting a deficit for 2023–24. By March, the University and College Union (UCU)...
Interview by Daniel Denvir Over nine months since Hamas’s October 7 attack, Israel’s brutal campaign in Gaza continues with no end in sight. According to the latest estimates from Gaza’s health authorities, Israeli forces have...
“Long live sacred Germany!” Addressing the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) congress last month, parliamentarian Dirk Spaniel might have sounded like a typical nationalist sloganeer. But while this event was surrounded by protests, just weeks after...
