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Heat-related deaths in Europe’s urban areas exceeded 50,000 in the summer of 2026, as repeated waves of record-breaking temperatures swept across the continent from late May through August.  More than 32,000 of those deaths were attributable to human-caused global warming, driven primarily by the burning of fossil fuels, according to studies published in Nature Health. […]

A United Nations fund to help developing nations pay the costs imposed by climate change voted Thursday to allocate money for Nepal as the country recovers from devastating flooding in August. It was a historic step for the fund—the first time it has allocated money to a vulnerable country in an immediate response to climate […]

This year has seen the resolution of major suits against tech giants Alphabet and Meta, both of which were found liable for serious lawbreaking. Yet the penalties imposed on the corporations are laughably inadequate to restrain their power.

Evangelical churches like Rick Warren’s wouldn’t be as massive as they are with real retention of members over time without a serious plan for member leadership development. The Left could learn from them.

In You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim turn their confrontation with Elizabeth Holmes into a Hitchcockian thriller about the slippery nature of truth. It’s a masterpiece.

In her new book, economist Isabella Weber explains how inflation has helped drive the far right’s ascendance around the developed world — and how effective price regulation can promote affordability and boost the Left.

Key to a long-term solution to defeating the far right is an economic program that guarantees security to all, including the affordability of housing and other essential components of a dignified life, Isabella Weber tells Jacobin.

Some of the arguments against data centers sound familiar. Opponents say the projects will change the look and feel of a place, harm the air and water and reduce property values. This rationale is familiar because residents have raised the same concerns in campaigns against wind and solar. Whether these objections to very different types […]

Peter Thomas, the Marxist theorist best known for his work on Antonio Gramsci, has died. He restored the political edge to Gramsci’s theory of hegemony and saw his own scholarship as part of the Left’s fight for power.

Rising food prices. Supply chain disruptions. Wars. More extreme weather. The confluence of these factors in 2026 has prompted researchers, advocacy groups and farmers around the world to more forcefully question the architecture of an increasingly stressed global food system—and the money, both public and private, that supports it. Coinciding with harvest season in much […]

France’s school students, Maidan and Budapest 1956: 70 Years Since the Hungarian Revolution

A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme suggests that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is no longer a realistic outcome, even under the most ambitious emissions-reduction scenarios. The report’s lowest-warming scenario, which would require steep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, would only limit peak global warming to 1.7 […]

Historian Mike Wallace, author of the Gotham trilogy of New York City history and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tried to capture everything about New York and the world through a droll, cheerful, humanistic Marxism.

THE JOURNALIST AND editor Peter Beinart was invited to engage in a dialogue at the University of Michigan on October 19, 2026, on “Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and American Democracy.” The purpose was to “explore the intersection of law, humanity, morality, racism and bigotry and how we can use this knowledge to oppose the rise of fascism… Continue reading Introducing Peter Beinart

In You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder appears almost willing to believe Elizabeth Holmes’s increasingly implausible claims of innocence. Whether or not his credulity is genuine, the result is a fascinating study of Silicon Valley self-deception.

Zack Polanski’s leadership of the Green Party is facing its biggest challenge to date. But the Greens can weather the storm if they stand their ground against deceitful attacks from Andy Burnham’s Labour government over their solidarity with Palestine.

Egypt in the Middle Ages was steeply class stratified. When the rains failed, the rich dined on hoarded grain while the starving poor ate grass. Periodically, the masses would erupt in revolt — sometimes with petitions, other times with stones.

Working people’s share of national income has fallen to a record low, even as corporate profits soar to unthinkable new heights. The trend reflects decades of eroded worker power, and reversing it will take a revitalized labor movement.

Over the past year, boats have plied the waters around Hinkley Point C, a nuclear power plant under construction along England’s Somerset coast, laying and testing a network of ultrasonic speakers across the seabed. This technology, set to drive fish away from the plant’s deadly cooling pipes, is expected to save fewer than one salmon, […]