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As France wonders if its new prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, can cobble together a government coalition and squeeze through next year’s budget, debate is raging over soaring economic inequality — and the tax system that’s...

Interview by Daniel Denvir What is going on with Chicago? It’s a question that people on the American left have been asking a lot since Zohran Mamdani won his spectacular upset in New York. That’s...

Review of A Social History of Analytic Philosophy by Christoph Schuringa (Verso Books, 2025) In his famous 1925 essay “A Defence of Common Sense,” the philosopher G. E. Moore wrote: “There exists at present a...

Republican lawmakers recently ordered social media companies to testify before the House Oversight Committee to “examine radicalization of online forum users, including incidents of open incitement to commit violent politically motivated acts” — while notably...

Review of A Social History of Analytic Philosophy by Christoph Schuringa (Verso Books, 2025) In 1932, in one of the more infamous exchanges between what eventually came to be known as the “analytic” and “continental”...

With the help of the Federal Reserve, banks are offering loans at higher rates than the interest they pay to depositors and pocketing the difference for themselves. This so-called net interest income is a wildly...

The Trump Justice Department is reversing the federal government’s Supreme Court defense of long-standing campaign finance laws and is now urging justices to strike down some of the last remaining limits on election spending. To...

Feminist calls for “abolishing the family” are having a moment. The idea raises some sharp questions about how capitalism organizes care and reproductive labor, but it also carries some big blind spots. Too often, its...

Jake Ephros An employee of NJ Transit reached out to me before this strike was announced, and I’m grateful that he trusted me to talk. We chatted, and he shared his perspective from the inside...

Many leftists in the Anglosphere have long held up the Nordic countries as real-world examples of a more just and humane social order — hardly socialist in any strict sense, but nonetheless concrete proof that...

From the bartender who is always having their hours scheduled in the most erratic and unhelpful way possible by an app called “Harvest” or “ZoomShift,” to the nurse harangued by a platform for supposedly spending...

The names rang out from a microphone set up on the corner of the Place de la Bastille in Paris — the site of the former prison. Name. Age. “Assassinated by Israel.” With each name,...