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Daron Acemoglu, who won the Nobel Prize in 2024, is no heterodox economist. But now The Economist magazine has damned his work, because it challenges the untrammeled power of Big Tech elites.

For decades, Dolly Parton, who died yesterday at age 80, wrote about poverty, hard work, and the defiant pride of working-class women. The Left should steal a page from her songbook.

Ever more footballers are pressuring FIFA chief Gianni Infantino to resign after he plotted to sell off the World Cup. Removing him should be the first step in a root-and-branch reform to put the game back in the hands of players and ordinary fans.

Growing up with dirty air harms kids’ health. But reducing pollution can help reverse the damage.  In London, an effort to combat traffic emissions led to measured improvements in kids whose lung growth was previously stunted compared to their peers outside the city. In New York City, policies that lowered prenatal exposure to air pollution […]

NEW YORK—When nearly 10,000 people in Southeast Queens lost power during a July heatwave, Mayor Zohran Mamdani called on residents to keep their air conditioners at 78 degrees to reduce the pressure on the grid. The New York Independent System Operator, which manages the state’s electricity grid, issued an energy watch the same month, but […]

TAMPA, Fla.—Ross Fabian’s low-slung apartment building sits beside a pond that sometimes smells of dead fish. He has seen dead dogs in the pond. For many years the pond has served an important purpose, as a repository of sorts for the pollutants and contaminants that flow with Florida’s heavy rains from the industrial sites, brownfields […]

Expelled from the Spotlight Socialist Network for supporting trade unionists in Iran and China

ELMORE, Ala.—Tiffany Montellano can’t sleep.  Instead, she lies awake, worried about her husband Andrew, 31, who is incarcerated at Elmore Correctional Facility just north of Montgomery, Alabama’s state capital.  She worries because a few days ago, she received a call during her lunch break from Andrew, who had missed their usual call the night before.  […]

One of the world’s most-used shortcuts is at risk as a severe drought plagues Central America.  Starting in early September, the Panama Canal will reduce the number of ships allowed to pass through each day due to low water levels in the artificial lakes that feed the lock system. Experts say the reason for the […]

Just in from our partners at Tennesseeans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty: The Tennesseean newspaper ran an informal reader poll last week, in which 93% of respondents said Tennessee should abolish capital punishment entirely. A smaller group (roughly 3%) supported an indefinite pause, while others advocated reforming the state’s death penalty. Just over 2% […]

Industrial policy is back in vogue in recent years — but without the working-class power to discipline capital, it’s just public money flowing to private profit.

The Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission will use artificial intelligence to speed up scientific research and “national security” work. The White House compares its urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project: the program that created the first atomic bomb.

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Ulm Five. In the July-August Against the Current, Annette Ohme-Reinicke discussed the case of the Ulm Five as part of her story on repression in Germany. Here is an update on the trial of the Ulm Five. THE ACCUSED ARE brought in one by one in handcuffs accompanied by a guard who stays and stands… Continue reading German Trial of Pro-Palestinian Activists

Public ownership may seem like the most obvious solution to the problems posed by AI. But purpose trusts could offer a more pluralistic form of social ownership — one that subordinates profit to a variety of public purposes.

America gave Prince Harry and Meghan Markle streaming deals, sunshine, and an insane amount of money. What it couldn’t give them was a personality independent of the monarchy.

With El Nino peering over our shoulders, wildfires growing, and heat waves extending… the feelings of Summer 2026 are far from over. The climate and biodiversity crisis are on full display, and so is the Stand.earth community and environmental movement. With that in mind we unequivocally  blew it out of the water as everyone came […]

It’s been five years since Berliners voted by referendum to expropriate the big corporate landlords. The ruling parties blocked the move, but next month’s state elections could produce a left-wing government that can finally honor the vote.

Some of the largest fossil fuel companies on Earth are disproportionately responsible for the water crisis in the American West, according to a first-of-its-kind study published Tuesday. From 2014 to 2024, climate change sapped over a third of the region’s typical annual snowpack and decreased streamflows by about 13 percent, the authors found in the […]

The 12 largest gas power projects planned in Texas are all specifically intended to run data centers, according to data released Tuesday by Global Energy Monitor, a global nonprofit that maps and tracks energy infrastructure.  The volume of gas power generation planned in Texas has continued to surge, growing by 50 percent in the last […]

Pennsylvania was a pioneer on renewable energy before the fracking boom upended that trajectory, and environmental advocates think it’s past time for state leaders to once again prioritize clean forms of power. The nonprofit PennFuture outlined ways for Pennsylvania to do so in a new report, accusing the state’s legislature of “policy inertia” for failing […]