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Keanu Reeves is reliably charming in Outcome, a new Apple TV comedy-drama about a beloved movie star, Reef Hawk, who’s making a comeback after several years of secret heroin addiction and a long rehab process....

This week, democratic socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced, with Governor Kathy Hochul, that New York would impose a pied-à-terre tax. While the playful French phrase implies a small dwelling, it’s a misnomer...

Review of Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? by Gabriel Rockhill (Monthly Review Press, 2025) “All the old crap of the thirties is coming back again — the sh-t about the ‘class line,’ the ‘role...

Sam Altman may be the reigning king of the AI boom, but the story that matters isn’t his rise or fall. The sector will still demand scale, speed, and the right to run roughshod over...

Taunting his defeated opponents on the night of Hungary’s last elections four years ago, Viktor Orbán had boasted that his triumph could be seen from the moon, “or at least, from Brussels.” Four years later...

This Friday, the landless workers of Brazil are marching two thousand strong into Salvador, a river of red crawling up the BR-324 highway. They are occupying fazendas in Madalena and in Darcinópolis, where just three...

Late last month, the New York Times highlighted what might be considered a weakness in Zohran Mamdani’s universal free childcare plan: the rich will get to use it too. The article, titled “They Pay $34...

At her morning press conference on April 7, President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that the credencialización process, or enrollment, for Mexico’s new universal health care service was set to begin. The goal, she explained, was unambiguous:...

Forget Bad Bunny’s halftime show and the Drake lawsuit: if social media is any indication, this year’s biggest music controversy concerns Brooklyn rock band Geese. Geese blew up last year, with their latest album Getting...

“If you’re not going to pay us enough to fucking live, you can at least pay us enough to not do this shit,” the man says as he reaches out with a lighter and ignites...

Less than six months after her assumption of office as Japan’s 104th (and first female) prime minister, and two months since her rise was confirmed by a resounding victory in a national election, the grip...

Illapa Sairitupac I want to be a socialist rep downtown; I want to be a face of socialism down here. We haven’t had a socialist legislator here in about a hundred years. We have some...