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A Republican-led bill in the House of Representatives could fast-track the next financial crisis by lowering regulatory barriers, including minimum capital requirements, for new and some existing community banks. The financial-industry-backed legislation will make it...

In this tumultuous political era, it’s common to hear that the Left needs to rebuild its historic sources of power. But it’s more accurate to say that the Left is essentially in the process of...

I’ve always enjoyed the Predator movies, starting with the incisive and thrilling first film released in 1987. Nobody could have appreciated more than me the fresh life writer-director Dan Trachtenberg injected into the franchise with...

With the latest Jeffrey Epstein revelations, it’s easy to get lost in the weeds. There’s so much interesting and scandalous stuff in the tranche of more than 20,000 emails released by the House Committee on...

This year, thousands of New Yorkers clawed political power out from establishment Democrats and brought it back home. When we elected Zohran Mamdani as mayor, we proved that the future of the city belongs to...

At the fiftieth annual Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) convention, 550 Teamsters talked about building power in their workplaces, from United Parcel Service (UPS) barns to school bus yards to the San Diego Zoo....

In 1964, Mario Tronti and a group of his comrades that included Antonio Negri founded the magazine Classe operaia (“Working Class”). While this may have been a minor event amid the global turmoil of those...

Review of Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur by Dean Van Nguyen (Doubleday, 2025). Who was Tupac Shakur? Depending on who you ask, you’ll get a plethora of responses. He was...

Amazon announced recently that it is shedding fourteen thousand corporate jobs. Various sources suggest that the number may reach thirty thousand in total, in which case it would top the twenty-seven thousand laid off in...

This week, utility regulators met at the annual “Let There Be Light” conference funded by major electric companies and data center energy hogs such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Activities included a secret workshop explicitly spelling out...

Under the second Trump administration, unions are under assault from many directions — from a dysfunctional National Labor Relations Board, to new attacks on public sector collective bargaining rights, to the cancellation of massive union...

Review of The Collapse of Global Liberalism: And the Emergence of the Post Liberal World Order by Philip Pilkington (Polity Books, 2025). Many of the cornerstones of the postwar liberal order are being shattered. The...