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Fifty years ago, General Francisco Franco died in his bed at El Pardo Palace, outside Madrid, after more than a third of a century ruling Spain with an iron fist. Much has been made of...

When Benjamin Estrello started working at Starbucks four years ago, he knew he wanted to unionize his store. The then-nineteen-year-old had grown up in what he describes as a “very conservative” household in North Texas....

“Now you can understand why Trump wakes up in the middle of the night sweating when he hears you and I are friends.” That’s one of the sensational, damning Jeffrey Epstein messages that has been...

When President Donald Trump brokered a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas in late September, the American president was heralded, even by some leading Democrats, for his peacemaking. Speaker Mike Johnson and Israeli Knesset speaker...

For months, Zohran Mamdani’s critics have gnashed their teeth over his self-identification as a democratic socialist, an ideology they consider beyond the pale. Their attacks didn’t work; Mamdani won the New York City mayoral race...

“Power concedes nothing without a demand,” Brooklyn state senator Jabari Brisport thundered on Sunday, quoting Frederick Douglass. “And our demand is — ?” The crowd yelled back, “Tax! the! Rich!” Twelve days after democratic socialist...

Zygmunt Bauman is globally recognized as a theorist of “liquid modernity.” The term, which suggests that the main feature of the current stage of the modern era is increasing individual and collective uncertainty, gained widespread...

Israel’s killing of at least 225 Palestinian journalists since October 7, 2023, briefly attracted international attention after it was calculated that more journalists have died in Gaza than died in the US Civil War, World...

November 2025 marks the three-year anniversary of Massachusetts voters approving a 4 percent surtax on annual incomes above $1 million. What this means is that if you live in Massachusetts, you pay 5 percent of...

Ezra Klein I don’t see it as opposed to labor standards or a high minimum wage or unions. I support sectoral bargaining. I support, in most places, a significantly higher minimum wage. But we can’t...

Economic insecurity is rampant and devastating. In Canada, a minimum-wage worker working full-time cannot afford a one-bedroom apartment in fifty-three of the country’s sixty-two urban regions. In the UK, 74 percent of parents find it...

At the beginning of November, after a tour spent collecting tributes and flattery across East Asia, Donald Trump left behind a region that has been further destabilized by his ignorance and impulsive behavior. The one-year...