Blade Runner in the Gulf
Saudi Arabia’s latest plans for a futurist city show the perils of unbridled urban expansion.
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After Balfour
100 years ago today, a 67-word statement from the British cabinet shaped the future of Palestine.
Trump the Sovereign
According to Donald Trump, the US should be able to do what it wants, when it wants, and the way it wants.
No Future
The only future made possible by Blade Runner 2049’s final scene is more and more Blade Runners.
Quantifying Incarceration
The numbers on mass incarceration make one thing clear: it is a gigantic machine for entrenching inequality.
Women and the Nation
In Turkey, nationalist dogma and women’s subordination go hand in hand.
Don’t Trust Jeff Bezos — or Rahm Emanuel
The Amazon sweepstakes is about cities valuing tech profiteers more than their residents.
The American Exception
US men’s professional soccer is uniquely exclusionary. That might be why they didn’t make it to the World Cup.
The Persecution and Vindication of Ron Carey
Ron Carey’s story reminds us of how the powerful respond to threats from labor.
The Revolution of 1517
Five hundred years ago today, Martin Luther launched the Reformation, unleashing a revolt against the late medieval order that went far beyond his intentions.
Macron’s Gift to the Rich
Surprise, surprise: Emmanuel Macron’s first budget slashes taxes on wealth and guts social spending.
The New Red-Baiting
Establishment pundits like Bret Stephens are trying to revive the Cold War, using the sloppiest of anti-left arguments.
Building a Catalan Republic
Lluc Salellas of the Catalan leftist party CUP discusses the events that led up to Catalonia’s declaration of independence — and what happens next.
The Fight for Free Time
The demand for fewer working hours is about liberation — both individual and collective.
When the Serfs Rebelled
In 1839, a small pocket of feudalism still existed in New York State. Then tenant farmers got organized.
“I’ve Got Your Back, and You’ve Got Mine”
Workers at the Los Angeles Times are unionizing not just to improve their working conditions but to ensure the future of the paper.
Against Conspiracy Theories
Forget JFK plots and 9/11 “truth.” What elites do out in the open gives us enough to be outraged about.
Information Is Power
How a group of researchers helped strengthen and scale up the anti–Vietnam War movement.
Horror Show
In the first season of Stranger Things, all possible futures are permeated by the Demogorgon of capital. What new terrors will season two bring?
Europe’s Next Left Government?
Katrín Jakobsdóttir, the leader of Iceland’s Left-Greens, discusses this weekend’s election and what will happen if they win.