As concerns over inflation have mounted, borrowing costs for the US state have risen sharply. The bond market volatility is capital cracking down on the state’s debt-fueled spending spree, and workers are set to pay for the belt-tightening.
Bari Weiss’s Most Loyal Soldier
For Olivia Reingold, one of the most prominent and prolific contributors to The Free Press, defending Israel takes priority over the facts.
The Last Revolutionary Filmmaker
Japanese filmmaker Masao Adachi spent nearly three decades in Lebanon alongside the Palestinian resistance. Today, stripped of his passport and largely ignored at home, he’s making the most politically alive cinema in Japan at 87 years old.
The Foundations of Turkey’s Peace With the Kurds Are Shaky
The disarmament of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and promised release of its prisoners offers a path to pacifying conflict in Turkey. It’s less clear if the Turkish state is ready to compromise with Kurds’ democratic demands.
Zack Polanski’s Eco-Populism Could Do With More Socialism
A year since the Green Party of England and Wales elected Zack Polanski as leader, its membership has nearly quadrupled. His rise speaks to dissatisfaction with Labour but also the difficulty of building a deep-rooted alternative.
The real choice is not between globalization and deglobalization, free trade and tariff walls, but between empowering capital and empowering workers.
The Left Should Start Using the Word “Evil”
According to philosopher Susan Neiman, the Left abandons the concept of good and evil at our own peril. If we refuse to use such morally freighted language, we concede it entirely to people who will use it for immoral ends.
German Centrists Are Smearing Die Linke as Antisemites
Claims that socialist party Die Linke threatens Jewish life in Berlin are shameful lies. Sadly, many desperate German politicians would rather make cheap antisemitism accusations than address the cost-of-living issues that drove Die Linke’s victory.
Five Essential Books for Understanding Imperialism
Vivek Chibber recommends five books that explain how empires work, how capitalism divides the world, and how Marxists have argued about imperialism.
The US Gives Impunity to Israel and Sanctions Its Critics
Human rights groups based in the West Bank have long documented Israel’s crimes — and that’s why they’re now subject to US sanctions. The US government is trying to make their work impossible in order to protect Israel from scrutiny.
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire became a campus sensation because it offered a master theory for globalization at a moment when old Marxist categories seemed exhausted. But the capitalist internationalism they saw as permanent has now crashed and burned.
Zach Cregger Made a Resident Evil Movie With Bite
Zach Cregger has never seen a Resident Evil movie, and that’s definitely for the better. His reboot is a fast, funny, scary blast of pure genre filmmaking and a darkly comic portrait of a society past collapse.
First We Took Manhattan, Then We Took Berlin
On Sunday, Germany’s socialist party Die Linke won the Berlin elections for the first time. Like New York’s Zohran Mamdani, it beat the establishment parties by offering Berliners concrete action on rents and the cost of living.
The Killer AI Robots Are Already Here
Recent weeks have seen a flurry of discussion over potential artificial intelligence doomsday scenarios. We shouldn’t forget that AI is already killing people, as it is increasingly used to direct weapons systems with minimal human oversight.
Americans Are Turning to GoFundMe Just to Get By
It used to be that Americans turned to GoFundMe to pay off their medical bills in a dysfunctional, privatized health care system. Now they’re doing it just to afford groceries.