The House ended the partial government shutdown last week by passing legislation containing five full-year spending bills for 2026 — Pentagon ($839 billion); Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education ($195 billion); Transportation and Housing and Urban Development...
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On Sunday night, millions of people across the United States and throughout Latin America tuned in to watch the National Football League’s (NFL) Super Bowl LX. Many of them were less interested in the game...
On August 30, 1983, Cemal Kemal Altun threw himself from the sixth floor of the Berlin Higher Administrative Court during the second day of legal proceedings assessing his request for political asylum in West Germany....
For many years, my home state of Indiana provided very limited access to Medicaid, a deadly state of affairs that still exists in the ten states that have stubbornly refused to accept Affordable Care Act...
Unions are in a death spiral, and the numbers show they could nearly vanish within our lifetime. That’s not alarmism. It’s arithmetic. Private sector union density has collapsed from about one-third of the workforce in...
In January 1929, the novelist and critic Mike Gold published a manifesto in the socialist magazine New Masses titled “Go Left, Young Writers!” In it, Gold argued that the American democratic project suffered from a...
The appeal of the Canadian gay hockey romance show Heated Rivalry isn’t hard to understand. Its young stars are beautiful and appealing, and their romance is sexy and sweet. But perhaps most appealing of all,...
With blood on the streets and burning barricades in the Twin Cities, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has hit front pages across the world. European politicians are increasingly uneasy about the Atlantic alliance, eager to...
One of the most dangerous clichés about the far right is that it appeals exclusively to stupid people. But the truth is far more unsettling. In The Anatomy of Fascism, historian Robert Paxton describes fascism...
In the aftermath of the Trump administration’s startling (and illegal) removal of Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan president, most global attention began to focus on Donald Trump’s follow-up threats to take control of Greenland, regardless of...
On January 6, Israeli and Syrian leaders met in Paris for US-sponsored talks which saw Syria’s Islamist president Ahmed al-Sharaa reach a tentative agreement aimed at a lasting security accord with Tel Aviv. That same...
Alyssa Battistoni The free gift is not originally my concept. It appears in classical political economy and in Karl Marx’s critique of it. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century political economists, from David Ricardo to Jean-Baptiste Say, write...
