Iran’s rulers have managed to contain a wave of protest for now. But the nature of the unrest and the state’s lethal response make this an unprecedented moment since the 1979 revolution, with the threat of a US attack still hanging over the country.
The White House posted an AI-altered picture of an ICE protester under arrest, made to look like she was sobbing remorsefully. The episode reveals something deeply disturbing about the unrestrained sadism of MAGA and this moment in American politics.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces played a key role in defeating ISIS. Now they are again forced to fight for their survival, as former jihadist Ahmed al-Sharaa’s transitional government seeks to crush Syria’s minorities.
Elizabeth Warren became a national force by being one of the only Democrats willing to speak out against the party’s Wall Street fealty — before adopting a more establishment-friendly posture. She may now be returning to her antiestablishment roots.
California billionaires are terrified of a proposal to save the state’s health care system by taking 5% of their wealth. They should be: a billionaire tax to fund health care is too simple, too necessary, and too plainly popular to be easily beaten.
A new study from the Pentagon’s favorite consulting firm, RAND Corporation, found that raising taxes on corporations could reduce the federal deficit better than Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff regime.
Unlike Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Gov. Kathy Hochul has not backed striking New York nurses, tepidly calling on “both sides” to negotiate. Her position may have to do with the hefty donations state Democrats have received from the New York hospital association.
At Davos, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney set fire to liberal platitudes. His actual politics, however, do quite the opposite.
Accounts of the life of Martin Luther King Jr often present him as a singularly great individual. Yet MLK was profoundly shaped by a vibrant ecosystem of socialists and labor radicals, from Myles Horton and Rosa Parks to Bayard Rustin and Stanley Levison.
In response to the killing of Renee Good and the ICE invasion, the Minneapolis labor movement has issued the nation’s first citywide general strike call in nearly 80 years, set for tomorrow. It is building on a grand American labor tradition.
Companies are increasingly using personalized data to lowball pay for desperate workers and jack up prices on consumers who lack options. Mayor Zohran Mamdani can make life more affordable for ordinary New Yorkers by banning surveillance pay and pricing.
Seth Harp’s reporting on nonclassified information about the US’s attack on Venezuela has led to attacks from Congress on his — and everyone’s — basic First Amendment rights.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, the latest entry in the British zombie franchise, ups the ante with a Jimmy Savile–inspired satanic cult and mesmerizing performances from Ralph Fiennes and Jack O’Connell.
For 40 years, social democratic parties radically improved life for workers. The labor movement and worker militancy made it possible.
State governments in Australia are trying to outlaw the phrase “globalize the intifada.” It’s an act of censorship that is willfully ignorant of the slogan’s meaning and connection with the Palestinian liberation movement.
Darializa Avila Chevalier has spent years as a grassroots organizer fighting mass incarceration, opposing ICE detention, organizing for Palestine, and knocking doors for Zohran Mamdani. Now the democratic socialist is running for Congress.
While Donald Trump fires off threats of military action against countries from Greenland to Iran, Latin America is the main focus for his strategy of imperial retrenchment. The Latin American left will have to build new alliances against US aggression.
Economist Clara Mattei explains how her profession has provided elites with a justification for austerity and exploitation.
Wall Street and the crypto industry are engaged in a legislative battle over which business interests will get to fleece more of their customers’ money, with big banks hoping to close a loophole that allows cryptocurrencies to pay interest to investors.
The Trump administration says it wants Greenland for its natural resources. But that’s largely fantasy: while the island has critical minerals and fossil fuels, there’s almost no infrastructure to extract them. The real motives are likely geopolitical.