Benjamin Case is a researcher, educator, and organizer living in Pittsburgh.
Many of the Biden administration’s final policy measures could soon be rolled back and permanently prohibited by the incoming GOP Congress, thanks to Democratic gambles and an obscure federal law increasingly weaponized by Republican lawmakers.
Democrats had a billion dollars to pull off a Kamala Harris victory. They hurled much of that money at celebrities and designing lavish environments to say the word “joy” in. It was one big A-list party, and Americans didn’t feel invited.
Conservatives today often denigrate a concern with economic inequality as a deviant left-wing preoccupation. In fact, from antiquity to the present, canonical thinkers of diverse political orientations have diagnosed economic inequality as a great evil.
In assessing Donald Trump’s victory, pundits have claimed the country turned right, the Harris campaign was too far left and woke, Biden’s presidency was robustly populist, and racism and sexism made the result inevitable. Those claims are all wrong.
In both Gaza and Lebanon, Israel’s attacks on hospitals and health care are part of a deliberate effort to collectively punish and depopulate large geographic areas.
Donald Trump has claimed that he will disempower content moderators and put an end to the “left-wing censorship.” We shouldn’t overstate the importance of such moves. Material inequality, not online discourse, explains liberalism’s defeat.
Political betting markets, which facilitated more than $3 billion in total election-related bets during this election season, are poised to win big from Trump administration ties and policies.
Last year, Germany’s Foreign Office spelled out guidelines for a “feminist” foreign policy, focused on defending marginalized women. Today in Gaza, this same ministry is arming the deadliest war on women and girls this century.
The selection of Lee Zeldin — a devoted Trump ally with no meaningful environmental expertise — to head the Environmental Protection Agency threatens to gut crucial protections for clean air and water while giving corporate polluters free rein.
So far, the Democratic Socialists of America has mostly relied on left-wing elected officials to act in concert without a coherent program. It has worked — but staying the course is risky. To keep up the momentum, DSA needs a coordinated plan.
World War I gave rise to a heated century-long debate about its causes. In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson surveys this wide-ranging field and makes the case that the Great War cannot be understood without considering the role of imperialism.
In the US, the past 40 years have seen the explosive growth of a new call center workforce, which now employs nearly 4 million people. Despite vigorous organizing efforts, the sector remains largely nonunion.
Economist Isabella Weber explains in a long-form interview where the inflation surge came from and how the Biden administration struggled to take necessary measures to combat it.
For decades, German governments have pursued the project of a free-market European empire. Today the war in Ukraine and US pressure are undermining the economic foundations of its hegemony — and Germany’s political leadership seems unable to respond.
Lithuania’s Social Democrats won the recent general election by promising to rein in the cost of living. But the party’s unnatural coalition partners and a difficult international picture make it hard to foresee a major shift to the left.
Democratic Party leaders and their donors bear responsibility for the increasingly widespread view of trans rights as incompatible with a politics that benefits the many, not the few.
Israeli ultraright football hooligans rampaged through Amsterdam, and regular fans were targeted with violence in turn. The whole episode was atrocious, but calling it a pogrom is historically ignorant and trivializes genuine horrors.
Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich, a self-proclaimed fascist, is set to appear at a fundraising gala in Paris on Wednesday. Authorities have refused calls to block his visit — even as they silence public displays of solidarity with Palestine.
Congress is set to vote on bipartisan legislation that would allow the government to strip any nonprofit it deems a “terrorist-supporting organization” of tax-exempt status — potentially arming Donald Trump with a new tool against his opponents.
August Bebel was the most important leader of German socialism in the period before World War I. Bebel championed the cause of women’s liberation in his book Women and Socialism, one of the most important and influential socialist texts of its day.