Agathe Dorra is a PhD researcher in political aesthetics at King’s College London
Spotify’s excesses — ghost artists, boring mood playlists, and AI — don’t indicate some evil inherent to streaming. They stem from the major labels’ effective oligarchy over the music industry.
Prabowo Subianto first made his name as an Indonesian military leader trying to crush East Timor’s push for independence. Today he is president — and his government is fighting another colonial war in West Papua.
Writer-director Celine Song’s Materialists follows a professional NYC matchmaker split between two charming suitors. It’s yet another attempt to update the Jane Austen formula, but without the poignancy and beauty of Song’s acclaimed Past Lives.
Taking advantage of a broken patent system, Big Pharma is making minor tweaks to medications just to keep affordable generics off the market, a new report suggests. They’ve made billions of dollars in the process.
In his campaign for NYC mayor, Zohran Mamdani has proposed making city buses fare-free. Critics of the proposal say this would deprive buses of needed funds, but their argument is based on a mistaken understanding of government revenue.
While the Israeli attack on Iran dominates the headlines, Israel has been accelerating its campaign of mass killing in Gaza. Israeli soldiers have repeatedly gunned down people lining up for food as they stand on the brink of starvation.
Despite their reservations about the impacts of crypto on consumers and the financial system, Democratic Party operatives and crypto industry advocates are secretly coordinating to push Democratic senators to back the pro-crypto GENIUS Act.
Vivek Chibber on why Trump II signals the end of an era — but not capital’s unchecked rule over our society.
There is so much off base in yesterday’s New York Times editorial on New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo. Let us count the ways.
Israel can inflict massive damage on targets in Iran thanks to its US-supplied technological advantages. But the old neocon fantasy of building a new Middle East through endless war is still as delusional as it is destructive of human life.
Concerned to increase the supply of housing and improve infrastructure, some on the Left have come to embrace the “abundance agenda.” But what capital needs is discipline, not deregulation.
It wasn’t just large, liberal cities but the heart of Trump country that formed the base of last Saturday’s “No Kings” protests. Together with his underwhelming military parade, they’re a warning of the softness of his support.
Drawing on a century-old theory about the inevitability of elite control, billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen champions Silicon Valley as a new ruling class. His worldview revives the reactionary dream of greatness unencumbered by the masses.
Novelist Joseph Conrad’s singular foray into sci-fi uncannily anticipates an unsettled world order in which Greenland, placed under the control of a clownish minor aristocrat, represents the new imperialist frontier.
Family abolitionists see the family as the beating heart of capitalist social reproduction. But this view of the family misunderstands both the structure of capitalist reproduction and the complexity of how people survive within it.
After many failed attempts to rein in vulture funds, New York lawmakers are trying an obscure medieval legal defense to stop them from profiting off the debt of poor nations. This last-resort option faces stiff resistance from Wall Street’s lobbying machine.
New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani says New Yorkers “are ready for a new generation of leadership that puts working people first.”
From 1976 to 1989, Hai Fan was a guerrilla fighter in the ranks of the Malayan Communist Party. His short story collection, Delicious Hunger, humanizes his comrades — and artfully portrays the tragedy of their struggle.
As Zohran Mamdani mounts a surging campaign for NYC mayor, his bid is becoming a model to replicate for the next wave of the US left. Can he expand his appeal to working-class demographics the Left has so far struggled to reach?
Some European states have recently started using more critical language about Israel’s genocidal onslaught against Gaza, rhetorically distancing themselves from the US line. But their ongoing record of complicity speaks louder than their words.