As the documentary Melania prepared to debut on Friday, its promotional posters across Los Angeles were vandalized with graffiti that transformed Melania Trump into a kind of Third Reich Barbie. She was accessorized with a...
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Review of The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet by Yi-Ling Liu (Knopf, 2026) In 2000, Bill Clinton famously quipped that China’s attempts to control the internet were akin to ...
Congressional Democrats are almost preternaturally talented at missing the moment, especially when it comes to immigration. They’re about to do it again. Democrats are poised to waste the strongest leverage they’ve had yet to rein...
What will it take to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Donald Trump? More and more Americans are coming around to the following answer: a general strike. They’re right to move in that direction....
Shawn Fain won the runoff to be president of the United Auto Workers (UAW) in March 2023, and the union he was elected to lead was in free fall. The standard of living for unionized...
Being a woman in Palestine means experiencing violence on two parallel tracks. There is the violence inflicted by the Israeli state, its military and settlers. There is also the violence perpetrated by men, whether soldiers,...
Between the mid-1960s and the 1980s, military dictatorships dominated South America, epitomized by the ABC countries: Argentina from 1966 to 1971 and 1976 to 1983, Brazil from 1964 to 1985, and Chile from 1973 to...
Vivek Chibber Yeah. The question is, why doesn’t the labor movement either create its own labor party, or why doesn’t a labor or socialist party come to the unions in the way you had in...
California’s multibillion-dollar home insurance industry would have you believe it’s on the verge of collapse. In recent years, we’ve seen major insurance companies pull out of California, citing an inability to handle the state’s wildfires...
After a decade of highs and lows, the British left has entered into a period of realignment. We have for some time been confident of the potency of our ideas: a socialism broadly underpinned by...
Review of The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World by Clifton Crais (University of Chicago, 2025). One of the first Europeans to try out slave trading failed dismally at it. In 1510, the...
David Orkin I met so many people [where] if you had [had] a lawyer at that moment, your life wouldn’t be in peril right now. I remember meeting this guy in a migrant shelter in...
