The United Auto Workers (UAW) have just marked one of the most important milestones in the union’s history: they have officially reached a tentative agreement on a first contract with Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The...
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There is nowhere nurses would rather be than at the bedside of their patients. When 15,000 nurses with the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) decided that they needed to be outside on the picket...
“We are joining in wishing you Happy Birthday and all that you wish for yourself,” Ehud Barak emailed Jeffrey Epstein on January 20, 2014, the billionaire pedophile’s sixty-first birthday, as he explained how a surprise...
”Please check with each participant whether it’s okay to take their photo.” After I take a picture of a slide during one of the presentations, a man approaches me. It’s Mikhail Lobanov, a Russian socialist,...
Across high-income countries, inequality is routinely misdiagnosed. When life expectancy gaps widen, when preventable illness clusters among poorer communities, and when disadvantage hardens into predictable patterns of premature death, the explanation offered by governments is...
Review of Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza by Peter Oborne (OR Books, 2025) “We need to make sure that the story is told properly so that when the history books write this...
Review of Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI by Nick Srnicek (Polity Books, 2025) In any list of “known unknowns” facing the world in 2026, artificial intelligence must be close to the...
Samantha Kattan I grew up in Austin, Texas, as it was rapidly gentrifying. As I saw that develop through high school and college, I became much more aware of the decisions that are being made...
On paper, the Mongolian state is becoming richer, with record exports, higher budget revenues, and decent rates of growth. Yet in daily life, it feels absent. Six years after winter protests that fused discontent over...
The companies collecting detailed information about you and selling it to corporations to determine your ability to obtain a loan, buy a house, or get a job are now urging the Trump administration to move...
C. Wright Mills published his book The Power Elite in 1956, at a time when pluralist theory dominated political science, and equilibrium theories such as systems analysis and structural functionalism had captured the field of...
“Let them take Svalbard” was the headline on January 13 for the Norwegian tabloid VG. This was actually a distortion of comments by Croatian president Zoran Milanović, giving the misleading impression that he was offering...
