The Trump administration is taking steps to further deregulate dangerous “forever chemicals,” or PFAS, increasingly ubiquitous chemicals that don’t easily break down and are linked to a wide range of health risks, including cancer and birth defects.
Polluters Will Say Anything to Hide Their Emissions Records
Giant corporations like ExxonMobil are calling on the Supreme Court to block a California law that would require them to release their emissions and climate records. The argument? It would violate businesses’ free speech.
The Rise of France Insoumise
France, like many other European countries, has seen a historic decline of the old workers’ parties. Yet the rise of France Insoumise has ensured the renewal of a dynamic left rooted in popular mobilization.
The Alternative Economic Model of Europe’s Nationalist Right
Right-wing nationalist governments in Hungary and Poland only made a selective break with neoliberal economics after the 2008 crash. Their goal was to strengthen domestic capital against foreign competitors without doing anything to empower workers.
The GOP’s Groyper Fringe Became Its Future
The rise of Nick Fuentes and the GOP’s radicalization reflects decades of intellectual groundwork and the material decline that pushed a generation toward conspiracy-laden populism.
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MAGA’s Court Philosophers
Once mocked as unsophisticated, Donald Trump in his second term has put forward an ambitious vision to reshape America. Surrounding the president is a loose network of intellectuals who provide his policies with a philosophy. An important new book maps it out.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Food
By some measures, the food influencer and wellness economy is worth over $7 trillion. In All Consuming, Ruby Tandoh traces the rise of this industry and asks how food became both a status symbol and a source of fantasy.
Europe’s Leaders Have No Strategy for Peace
Caught off guard by new proposals to halt the war in Ukraine, European leaders have rejected the idea of Kyiv giving up territory. What’s less clear is how they imagine making their red lines into a reality.
How to Fix Public School Financing
Far too many US public schools suffer from a lack of adequate funding. Solving the problem will require ending public education’s dependence on local property taxes, a funding mechanism that heavily reproduces inequality.
Last night in Brooklyn, after his win in New York’s mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani gave a victory speech that quoted Eugene Debs, directly challenged Donald Trump, and laid out a vision for a New York City transformed. We reprint it here in full.
Medicare for All Disappeared. Its Popularity Didn’t.
The demand for Medicare for All went from the center of the discourse to political exile in record time. But the policy’s popularity never faded. A new poll finds strong majority support for the neglected idea among Americans across the political spectrum.
Capitalism Subverts Democracy
In recent decades, the American economy has been characterized by rising inequality, shrinking free time, and the growing concentration of economic and political power, increasingly undermining the democratic ideals to which the US is ostensibly committed.
How Public Groceries Can Make Food Affordable Again
Errol Schweizer, a former national vice president of grocery at Whole Foods, argues in Jacobin that the private sector is responsible for ever-rising grocery prices and can’t be relied on to fix the problem. Our food system needs a public option.
COP30 Kicked the Climate Can Down the Road Once Again
The US didn’t send a delegation to the COP30 conference in Brazil, reflecting the Trump administration’s nihilistic attitude to the climate crisis. In its absence, the other big industrial powers once again postponed making hard but essential choices.