In response to the Democratic Socialists of America’s big electoral wins, some are eager to write it off as a movement of elite professionals. These criticisms miss a lot about both DSA and the changing working class.
The Firestone rubber plantation in Liberia is the largest contiguous rubber plantation in the world. In a model for labor struggles around the globe, thousands of workers there have overcome Firestone’s efforts at union busting via subcontracting.
Neoliberalism’s defining feature was always the insulation of capital from democratic control. Trumpism’s break with free trade has changed the rhetoric. But the underlying economic order remains intact.
From Preston Sturges and the Coen brothers to Martin Scorsese and John Ford, the Criterion Channel’s “Odysseys” series traces the enduring appeal of Homer’s epic in American cinema.
Turkey, which hosts this week’s NATO summit, has the alliance’s second-largest army. Its strategic role in a US-dominated world order has long outweighed any concerns about its lack of democratic standards.
Pope Leo excommunicated four newly consecrated bishops last week, members of the conservative Society of Saint Pius X. Their movement represents a broader traditionalist reaction in the Catholic church, fueled by Christian nationalists in the US and beyond.
The National Black Empowerment Council presents itself as a voice for black communities. Its funding, alliances, and political strategy suggest a different mission: expanding pro-Israel conservative influence within black political institutions.
Since October 7, academic institutions have applied overt and covert pressure to discourage Holocaust and genocide scholars from criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza. Still, many academics are organizing new networks to defend free inquiry.
Online gambling operators are no longer selling the promise of luxury but the promise of stability. Through fake Reddit accounts, they peddle stories of groceries bought and rent paid, all supposedly made possible by a lucky break.
In Serbia, the connivance between politicians and multinational capital has fed a sustained protest movement. Current protests in Albania, resisting a luxury development project backed by Jared Kushner, target a similar cronyish capitalism.
France’s political elites have made vague criticisms of Benjamin Netanyahu but refused to denounce the genocide in Gaza. Now left-wing lawmaker Rima Hassan has been dragged to trial because she defends Palestinians’ right to resist occupation.
Janeese Lewis George, the democratic socialist who just won DC’s mayoral primary, talks tenants’ rights, gentrification, and what home rule can’t protect against.
Lucrecia Martel’s latest film, Nuestra Tierra, the director’s first documentary, juxtaposes the fragility of colonial narratives with the strength of indigenous peoples’ collective identity formed through fighting the dispossession of their land.
The Declaration of Independence has been quoted by abolitionists, suffragists, socialists, civil rights activists, and the Black Panthers. Why should conservatives get to own it now?
In a speech marking the country’s 250th anniversary, socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani lays out his vision of a United States of America for the many, not the few.
American exceptionalism has always had an absurd and self-serving character to it. But any pretense justifying it has collapsed in the face of Donald Trump’s cruelty and oligarchic corruption.
