When historians of the French Revolution discuss Jean-Paul Marat, they usually focus on his bloodthirsty rhetoric. But Marat also had an uncanny ability to anticipate major events thanks to his grasp of the social forces the Revolution had set loose.
Trump Officials Built an AI Tool to Turbocharge Deregulation
Artificial intelligence has a history of making poor regulatory decisions with disastrous effects on people’s lives. Newly released documents show the Trump administration sought to deploy a powerful AI tool to accelerate its deregulation spree.
The Vatican vs. Mar-a-Lago
Pope Leo XIV is making it impossible to reconcile MAGA politics with Catholic faith.
The War in Iran Has Triggered a Helium Crisis
The war in Iran has cut off access to a large share of global helium resources, which are needed for lifesaving medical procedures and semiconductor production. This crisis could have been avoided if the US hadn’t sold its stockpile to private companies.
John Roberts’s About-Face on Supreme Court Activism
During the Reagan administration, John Roberts was known for denouncing judicial overreach. Today he has adopted an assertive use of judicial power, using the Supreme Court’s shadow docket to fast-track corporate wins on climate and federal policy.
Under capitalism, technological “progress” like AI systematically deskills workers, deepens managerial control, and turns the labor process into a site of conflict rather than liberation. This is by design.
The AI Revolution Could Usher In a New Age of Stagnation
Governments and tech moguls have bet hundreds of billions on artificial intelligence. If the technology does what it promises, we will have to radically rethink how the global economy functions.
“I’m Running Because It Shouldn’t Be So Hard to Live Here”
Aparna Raj is a tenant organizer and socialist running for city council in Washington, DC. We spoke to Raj about the affordability crisis in the nation’s capital and why the push for DC statehood will be crucial under a potentially Democratic Congress.
Communists Helped Build the Mighty New York Hotel Union
Before they faced fierce repression from the US government at the outbreak of the Cold War, early 20th-century Communist labor organizers helped build the New York hotel workers’ union into one of the city’s most militant unions.
Ibrahim Traoré Would Like to Be Thomas Sankara’s Heir
Burkina Faso’s military leader, Ibrahim Traoré, has styled himself as the political heir of Thomas Sankara. However, the substance of Traoré’s record since taking power in 2022 is much less ambitious than Sankara’s agenda as president in the 1980s.
Neoliberalism didn’t win an intellectual argument — it won power. Vivek Chibber unpacks how employers and political elites in the 1970s and ’80s turned economic turmoil into an opportunity to reshape society on their terms.
Anti-Imperialism and Its Fault Lines
In an age of renewed empire, the question of how to resist has again raised its head. The interwar Latin American left’s debates over race, nation, and class shed light on the thorny problem of self-determination within anti-imperialism.
Big Tech Quietly Demanded Immunity for Working With TikTok
After Congress banned Big Tech from working with TikTok, major tech firms like Apple and Google privately requested the Trump administration assure them they wouldn’t be prosecuted under the law. The president happily granted them full amnesty.
Socialists Are Cornering Hochul on Taxing the Rich
The movement for taxes on the rich in New York just scored its first goal against Kathy Hochul. And they say they’re not stopping there.
Victor Serge Was One of the Great Revolutionary Writers
Victor Serge lived through a remarkable sequence of revolutionary upheavals before dying in Mexican exile at the age of 56. Serge’s life and work, caught between hope and despair, can help us understand Europe’s turbulent 20th century.