Benjamin Case is a researcher, educator, and organizer living in Pittsburgh.
Trump administration economic projects like its big AI build-out involve billions of dollars in investments from the Saudi Arabian government. The committee that’s supposed to oversee the deals is stacked with officials with business ties to the Saudis.
In the face of what they say was a vicious anti-union campaign, and at a time of anti-worker right-wing advance nationally, Philadelphia Whole Foods workers successfully voted to form a union. We spoke to one of the workers about how they did it.
Luxury housing sits empty all over Los Angeles while average city residents displaced by the recent fires are struggling to find new homes in an incredibly tight housing market. There’s an easy solution: give the empty houses to the displaced.
Donald Trump’s tariffs are part of a desperate attempt by a declining America to cling to its position as the world’s most powerful nation by using its economic heft to coerce rivals and allies.
The mass deportation dragnet ordered by Donald Trump isn’t just terrorizing undocumented immigrants and their communities — it’s also imprisoning and even deporting American citizens.
Finland’s Left Alliance is uniting a left coalition to deliver a rebuttal to right-wing austerity. Former leader Li Andersson outlines a winning playbook that combines environmental priorities with robust workers’ rights.
Musa al-Gharbi’s We Have Never Been Woke pinpoints the hypocrisies of professional elites who use social justice jargon as status markers. Yet the book exaggerates their agency, casting “wokeness” as a core driver of economic inequality.
The antiabortion movement is trying hard to block access to abortion pills and restrict telehealth reproductive care. But their lawsuits and bans aren’t stopping a robust network of conscientious providers from finding new ways to help patients access care.
Nine countries in the Global South have come together to form the Hague Group, dedicated to ensuring that international law is enforced against Israel. The alliance marks the revival of a proud tradition of Third World solidarity.
In 1901, the Amsterdam city government started to replace privately owned slums with cooperatively run housing. The project attracted many innovative designers, but its aesthetic function didn’t always suit the needs of the new homes’ inhabitants.
The left case for an independent Canada.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved controversial drug treatments for Alzheimer’s disease amid excess deaths, questionable efficacy, and conflicts of interest between regulators, patient advocates, and Big Pharma.
Conservative Pierre Poilievre’s politics aren’t just about populism — they’re grounded in Milton Friedman’s radical vision of free markets. If he is elected prime minister, Poilievre promises a Canada where the welfare state is “out of business.”
New York City’s history is full of examples of how to build, preserve, and expand affordable housing, including through the creation of union-backed co-ops.
Serbia’s prime minister has resigned after months of protests over the deadly rail-station canopy collapse in Novi Sad. No isolated incident, the disaster has become the latest symbol of government subservience to unscrupulous multinational developers.
Reflecting the Trump administration’s priorities, the Environmental Protection Agency has now removed all information about climate change from its home page and other prominent areas of its website.
Donald Trump’s belligerence toward Latin American leaders raises the prospect of a more concerted regional resistance, one its popular left bloc is well positioned to lead.
Amazon may be closing its warehouses in Quebec to send a warning to unions, but it still has to get packages to customers. For a company that thrives on controlling warehouses, this retreat may be more costly than it seems.
Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths is another triumph by that legendary dramatist of working-class British life. But films like Leigh’s are a rare breed these days.
One of the most shocking features of Israel’s 15-month campaign of violence against Gaza’s population was the US political class’s refusal, even in the face of mounting evidence, to call what was happening a genocide.