Benjamin Case is a researcher, educator, and organizer living in Pittsburgh.
The assault on and arrest of California labor leader David Huerta during the brutal immigration crackdown in Los Angeles this weekend is part of a broader attack on unionized workers by Donald Trump’s deportation machine. Unions are mobilizing in response.
A wave of bills in state legislatures across the US is seeking to classify climate-heating methane gas as a source of “green” or “clean” energy. Dark money groups connected to the gas industry are behind the effort.
Ballerina is the female John Wick spin-off you didn’t know you needed. Ignore the critics — it’s fantastic.
The US Senate is poised to pass a financial deregulation bill ensuring that when a bank goes out of business, the savings of cryptocurrency owners would be made whole before those of other bank customers.
The liberalization of Israeli capital markets in the 1980s created close ties between US finance and the Israeli state. These connections have given rise to a capital coalition in both countries with an interest in continuing the genocide.
The Trump administration claims to be fighting an existential battle against insurrectionary forces in Los Angeles. In truth, it created this cynical spectacle itself, deploying troops and inflaming tensions to distract from its policy failures.
With some prominent Democrats and liberal pundits arguing for the party to try to win Elon Musk back to its side, you have to ask: Is American politics simply a matter of who can best kiss the ass of narcissistic reactionary billionaires?
The activists aboard the Madleen aid ship couldn’t break the siege of Gaza. But Greta Thunberg and her colleagues have powerfully drawn attention to Israel’s blockade — and the West’s refusal to do anything about it.
A new whistleblower lawsuit is accusing the Trump administration of using a secret subpoena to force Colorado officials to ignore state laws and hand over the private financial information of residents who are sponsoring unaccompanied immigrant children.
This morning, Israeli authorities captured the aid boat Madleen, halting its mission to Gaza. Just hours before it was intercepted we spoke to Rima Hassan, a French member of the European Parliament who was aboard the vessel.
Socialist New York City Council member Alexa Avilés is running for reelection against a Democratic primary candidate backed by big real estate and pro-Israel money. We spoke to her about her record and the forces that want her out of office.
Last Wednesday, workers at a port in southern France searched a cargo ship headed for Haifa — and found it carried 19 pallets of machine-gun parts. They blocked the shipment, refusing to be complicit in Israel’s war crimes.
The kind of Jewish identity on display in Jewish-led Palestine solidarity demonstrations organized by groups like Jewish Voice for Peace is part of a long history of Jewish identity being bound up in leftist politics.
Donald Trump’s attacks on environmental regulation and the administrative state are part of a right-wing class war — one that pits patriotic citizens against perceived liberal experts defending what’s left of the New Deal order.
The kind of mass volunteer door-knocking operation that New York City mayoral campaign for Zohran Mamdani has built is the way to fight rising authoritarianism and the erosion of democracy.
Two billionaires, Donald Trump and Elon Musk, are squabbling over the federal government’s spoils. It seems almost quaint to worry about a revolving door between the public and private sectors now that the whole facade’s been blown off.
The murder of mosque-goer Aboubakar Cissé in April again highlighted the prevalence of Islamophobia in France, discrimination that is driving increasing numbers of Muslims to leave the country.
The slap fight between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has highlighted the absurdity of keeping so much of our space program and satellite internet infrastructure in the hands of a single oligarch.
Donald Trump’s federal budget includes massive increases in military spending, including funding for a Star Wars–esque missile defense system known as the “Golden Dome.” Both Trump and the media are likely underestimating the cost of this boondoggle.
In 1995, new AFL-CIO director John Sweeney had an ambitious plan to organize millions of new union members. As labor’s fortunes continue to decline 30 years later, understanding what went wrong in the Sweeney years may offer clues as to the path forward.