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EL PASO—While Texas officials have hit pause on data center permitting, one project that is still moving ahead is Meta’s $10 billion, 1-gigawatt data center in northeast El Paso. Meta had already signed tax abatement agreements with El Paso, jumped through regulatory hoops and started construction before Texas officials tapped the brakes on data center […]

We don’t need to wait around for a potential artificial intelligence catastrophe sometime down the road. We can already see the havoc it’s wreaking across our society right now.

It is fashionable to mock Francis Fukuyama as an uncritical celebrant of neoliberal capitalism. But The End of History offered a powerful analysis of the origins of right-wing populism that has proved prescient in the Donald Trump era.

For migrant workers in India, supply shocks from Trump’s folly in the Strait of Hormuz are causing hunger.

Working people in America are facing a crisis of living standards, Sam Gindin argues, but this has not translated into a crisis for the capitalist system. To challenge ruling class power, the Left still needs to sink deeper roots into the labor movement.

Bulgaria’s Socialist Party survived the end of communism, but in more recent years its neoliberal record and nationalist postures drove it toward defeat. New leader Krum Zarkov told Jacobin how he plans to turn the party toward a renewed socialism.

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump responded to rising public concerns about artificial intelligence with a post on Truth Social. “The same people that said, ‘We’ll all be dead in twelve years because of Global Warming,’ a name since ‘reborn’ to Climate Change, because the Planet was cooling, not warming, and nobody was dead, are […]

Glenda Beal’s roots in lobstering run nearly as deep as her roots in the town that shares her name: Beals Island, Maine. Her husband and two sons are lobstermen, as were her father and uncle, both grandfathers and a few generations before that. “Our economy runs on lobster fishing, predominantly,” said Beal, 60, a descendant […]

NEW YORK—From the podium of the United Nations General Assembly, Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino called on fellow leaders to support a treaty affirming that nature has inherent rights.  “Today I am announcing that Panama will lead internationally an effort to recognize the universal rights of nature. And I ask all of you to support […]

Heading into election season, leaders in Corpus Christi face a puzzling question: what to do with $235 million from the state of Texas for a seawater desalination plant that was never built.  This month, officials in the Gulf Coast city declined to pursue the flagship water supply project for the second time in a year […]

Seafood isn’t just a key source of protein and calories; it’s also where millions around the world get essential vitamins and minerals needed to build tissue, fight infections and grow. Yet, as modern mechanized fishing fleets plunder global waters, populations in low-income countries are losing out.  If the fish caught by foreign-flagged bottom trawlers went […]

Nos reuniremos virtualmente (a través de Zoom) para diseñar estrategias sobre cómo podemos usar individualmente el poder de nuestras cuentas de redes sociales (a través de Facebook, X, Threads, Linkedin, […]

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The Right has long owned ideas of government efficiency and cutting red tape, using them to carry out austerity. With the Commission on Government Efficiency (yes, COGE), Zohran Mamdani is attempting to claim the cause of good government for the Left.

A federal court in Michigan has tossed out a pioneering antitrust lawsuit brought by the state of Michigan against four major oil and gas companies and their largest U.S. trade association that alleged a conspiracy to forestall the transition to renewable energy and electric vehicles in order to maintain market dominance of fossil fuels. Michigan […]

More than 451,000 people are projected to die across the globe in the next six months from the additional heat brought by a super El Niño, according to estimates from climate scientists released Wednesday.  The El Niño—the warm phase of the Pacific Ocean’s recurring cycle, when heat from the ocean is released into the atmosphere—began […]

Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism has become a touchstone for the Left on race and capitalism. August Nimtz argues that it misreads Karl Marx, erases black revolutionaries who were Marxists, and gives up on the working class.

“Listen to the Indigenous peoples who are saying no to this project of death,” said Juma Xipaia, founder of Instituto Juma.

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Paul Greengrass’s The Uprising takes on the English Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 with his trademarked “gritty realist” style. The result is a glum plod through the 14th century. This is Robin Hood and His Morose Men when our times call for something much more.

ANNAPOLIS, MD — Governor Wes Moore took positive steps to protect Marylanders from the harms of data centers with his executive order (EO) released today. In a press conference announcing the EO, the Governor spelled out five principles guiding the state’s criteria for considering data center projects, barred Maryland employees from entering into nondisclosure agreements […]

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