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Review of Stop the Machines: The Rise of Anti-Technology Extremism by Mauro Lubrano (Polity, 2025) In August 2011, a mail bomb exploded at the Monterrey Institute for Technology and Higher Education in Mexico. Two scientists...

One of the last remaining regulatory firewalls between corporate cost cutting and consumer safety is crumbling, risking the lives and limbs of everyday Americans to boost major industries’ bottom line. Months after the president fired three Democratic...

The US Supreme Court is reportedly set to gut core provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a landmark law that prohibited racial discrimination in the voting process. Urging the court to act is the...

Last year saw a wave of protests in Germany in reaction to calls for the expulsion of people with migrant backgrounds. The demonstrations expressed justified moral outrage against a rising far right. Yet other developments...

The name of Lucio Colletti, one of postwar Italy’s leading Marxist philosophers, encapsulates the alternation between “progress” and “reaction” that the country has experienced since the fall of fascism. Colletti himself had intense, firsthand experience...

I finally had a chance to read that long Astead Herndon profile of Zohran Kwame Mamdani in the New York Times, which I recommend. I was especially struck by this passage. Gaspard first met Mamdani...

The acquittal of Soldier F at Laganside Crown Court is a moment that demands clarity, honesty and courage. His trial was long delayed, tightly focused and ultimately unsuccessful — but it has not altered the...

Well, that didn’t last long. Establishment Democrats and their assorted hacks have spent the entire past year incessantly insisting that wokeness, elitism, and language policing were out, and that white guys, working-class politics, and speaking...

Over 51,000 teachers in Alberta, Canada are on their first-ever province-wide strike, demanding meaningful salary increases and better working conditions. As the strike enters its third week, Premier Danielle Smith’s right-wing United Conservative Party (UCP)...

I’ve been in plenty of left-wing group chats over the years where people have said rude, offensive, or regrettable things. I’m sure lots of participants in these chats would be embarrassed if the crass jokes...

While official unemployment remains low, America’s labor market is stagnating: wage growth has slowed, job creation has weakened, and labor force participation is in decline. White-collar employment, particularly in tech, has fallen by 1.9 percent...

Last month, tens of thousands of Filipinos took to the streets following a series of revelations that some of the country’s highest officials had been receiving kickbacks worth millions of dollars from government contracts. They...