Cristina Groeger is a history professor at Lake Forest College and a member of the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America.
Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, many Democrats are certain that what cost Kamala Harris the 2024 election was bigotry in the “flyover states.” And that misunderstanding is only going to lock them out of power longer.
As Washington scales down its US defense commitment to Europe, many of the continent’s leaders are talking of making the EU a military superpower. It’s an unrealistic prospect, but it risks becoming the key focus of EU spending.
After years of decline and internal strife, Germany’s left-wing party is finding new life. Grace Blakeley talks to the organizers behind Die Linke’s surprising growth.
Caving to right-wing pressure, Creative Australia canceled its invitation to pro-Palestinian artist Khaled Sabsabi to the 2026 Venice Biennale.
Before Bob Dylan was Bob Dylan, he was a disciple of Woody Guthrie. But Guthrie and his contemporaries were more than folk singers — they were blacklisted radicals, shaping American music while staring down the Red Scare.
Private equity firms are exploiting loopholes to tap billions in publicly supported funds from the Federal Home Loan Bank System, a little-known relic of the Great Depression originally established to encourage affordable mortgage lending.
Donald Trump’s speech last night sounded like a deranged remix of Ronald Reagan. Instead of slamming him where it hurts, Democrats responded by claiming Reagan’s poisonous legacy for themselves.
The Right’s growing success with working-class voters wasn’t won with policy papers or think tanks; it was built through media that speaks their language. If the Left wants to compete, it needs to build a media ecosystem that resonates.
A new conservative environmentalism that blends anti-modernism with nationalism and austerity is spreading across Europe.
It’s become a cliché to observe that news coverage of disasters like the LA wildfires resembles a Hollywood movie. Yet the movies themselves are now shying away from depicting our disastrous reality by peddling easy myths of technological quick fixes.
Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency is advancing a proposal to block states from warning consumers about herbicides and other agricultural products in their food — including the widely used glyphosate, which some studies have linked to cancer.
The New York Times’ David Leonhardt argues that Danish Social Democrats succeeded by restricting immigration and suggests other center-left parties may need to follow suit. Yet other recent European left parties have succeeded through a different path.
Donald Trump’s tariffs have done what decades of US economic dominance did not: make Canadians question their economic subordination. Conversations about economic self-determination are emerging — and no one is saying “sorry” this time.
Democratic Party leaders want the benefits of an engaged activist base like the one currently challenging Donald Trump without actually having to listen to or engage with it.
Keir Starmer is running a government that allows children to go hungry and pensioners to starve, while defense contractors get billions. Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn condemns his successor’s policies.
Dissatisfaction at established green parties and environmental NGOs has fed the rise of more confrontational forms of activism. The task can’t just be to raise awareness but to mobilize millions of people in fighting for their own interests.
Andrew Cuomo has appointed himself as the savior of New York City in the race for mayor. But many of the city’s problems are the direct result of his decade of underfunding our critical services, and he’s far from a corruption-free candidate himself.
The Conservative Political Action Conference was a pageant of outlandish costumes and cruel humor. But don’t be distracted by the sideshows: the MAGA right takes itself very seriously, and it’s hard at work forming a transnational far-right alliance.
Class dealignment perspectives tend to overstate the extent to which center-left parties can boost their fortunes today through a strict focus on pocketbook issues.
The immense power financial institutions wield over most aspects of our lives makes a mockery of democracy. To build a truly democratic society, we need to democratize finance.