The fact that the meeting was even happening was enough to produce an air of subversive excitement. On August 25, 1925, a century ago this year, black sleeping car porters hoping to form a union...
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In 2023, a friend took me to a night of off-Broadway theater in downtown Manhattan. A small audience gathered in a black box performance space to watch a series of tenderly performed short plays —...
Because capitalism orients people toward profit rather than allowing us to pursue our interests freely, it inevitably separates humans from the creative act. AI art is just the slop frothing up from that gap. Humanoid...
In 2018, Jeremy Corbyn seemed like a prime-minister-in-waiting. Addressing the Labour Party conference at Liverpool’s ACC arena that September, he attacked Britain’s then-leader Theresa May for stalling in negotiations over the country’s exit from the...
Zohran Mamdani ran his campaign for New York City on two messages: making the city affordable and taxing the rich. This has been a winning formula for many progressive candidates for more than a century....
The Trump administration is sabotaging a legal defense program for tens of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children, according to government documents and an internal letter from immigration lawyers sounding the alarm reviewed by The Lever. As...
Since losing his US visa for comments he made at a pro-Palestine rally in New York City, Colombian president Gustavo Petro has not backed down. After Israel illegally intercepted the boats of the Global Sumud...
There’s a lot to dislike about the 2026 FIFA World Cup. A bloated forty-eight-team tournament spanning all of North America would be tough to pull off in the best of conditions. FIFA openly ripping off...
Crime fiction’s critics have long argued that the genre is inherently conservative. Nicholas Royle and Andrew Bennett elaborated on this in Introduction to Literature, Theory, and Criticism, noting that the genre’s strictures compel detectives to...
Review of Post-Liberalism by Matt Sleat (Polity, 2025) and Against Post-Liberalism: ‘Why Family, Faith and Flag’ is a Dead End for the Left by Paul Kelly (Polity, 2026) The Right is often unsure what time...
On November 21, Ukrainians found themselves staring at a peace proposal that demanded near-immediate acceptance. The leaked twenty-eight-point peace plan, drafted by Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian official Kirill Dmitriev, reads like a...
In a recent appearance on CNN, right-wing pundit Batya Ungar-Sargon defended the Trump administration’s policy of blowing up boats off the Venezuelan coast that it claims are carrying drugs. “Secretary of State Rubio has determined...
