The decapitation of Venezuela’s government. Saber-rattling over the annexation of Greenland. The US and Israeli war of choice against Iran. The opening months of 2026 have seen a dramatic escalation in Donald Trump’s bellicose militarism....
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The New York Times recently ran a story on Alex Adams, President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Administration for Families and Children (ACF). Adams, who used to oversee Idaho’s Department of Health and Welfare,...
As Congress nears a vote this week on extending the deep state’s ability to spy on Americans, emails obtained by the Lever show how an influential Democratic member of Congress is whipping votes behind the scenes...
C, a man in his late sixties with a head of thick white hair and a large, bright red nose, sits on a plastic chair under a small tree in front of my building every...
In its failed attempts to undermine and abolish the May 1 bank holiday, the French government has sought to depict International Workers’ Day as an anachronism. But when we look at the problems facing society...
For several weeks, the idea of the first of May as a nonworking public holiday for all workers has been contested in France. After well over a century at the center of the international workers’...
Max Page is president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA), one of the largest state affiliates of the National Education Association and the largest union in New England, representing roughly 117,000 education workers from pre-K...
That Denmark was once a slave-trading and slaveholding empire remains relatively little known outside of the former Danish West Indies, known since 1917 as the US Virgin Islands. Nor have the Danes been eager to...
Half a century after its release, Harlan County USA (1976) still lands with the force of something happening in the present tense. The documentary is full of scenes that have become part of the language...
In the summer of 2020, we decided to count every strike in the United States. The Labor Action Tracker (LAT), currently the only comprehensive strike database in the country, was conceived amid the upsurge of...
Over the past two months, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has drawn international attention as the most prominent European critic of the US-Israeli war on Iran. As clips of his speeches have gone viral on...
If the first rule of capitalism is “commodify it,” the second is now: “Put it on a platform.” Contemporary technologies offer speed, reach, and network effects that even the most prolific robber barons of earlier...
