From South Korea to the United States, there are multiplying signs of democratic crisis in today’s world. The root of the problem is the permanent tension between capitalism and democratic freedoms, which only exist because of great popular struggles.
Last year Dan Osborn, a former union president and strike leader, almost won a Senate seat in deep-red Nebraska as a populist independent. Osborn has now started a PAC to recruit, train, and support more blue-collar candidates for public office.
Donald Trump promised to be “a dictator on day one.” Instead, his barrage of executive orders is largely an organized pursuit of his campaign pledges — with a noticeable lack of action on tariffs and immigration raids thus far.
Like clockwork, when Democrats get desperate, they trot out disingenuous populist rhetoric to try to save themselves.
In Germany, a toxic national debate on Muslims and immigration has fueled the rise of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland. Polling second place ahead of February’s federal elections, mainstream parties are increasingly playing into its rhetoric.
In 2023, the World Health Organization classified the act of firefighting as a Group 1 carcinogen, just like asbestos and tobacco. Both the fires themselves and the very gear firefighters wear on the job are making them sick.
Emmanuel Macron’s coalition, drawing on both center-left and center-right politicians, was a perfect embodiment of the neoliberal project. Unable to deliver prosperity for wider layers of French people, it has driven the political system into turmoil.
Donald Trump’s administration is doing everything it can to project power and a sense of unstoppability in his first days as president. But the cracks are already starting to show.
The sudden collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s decades-long rule after December’s lightning rebel offensive has left a sense of cautious hope among Syria’s youth. Our reporter traveled to Damascus to document their hopes and fears.
On day one of his second presidential term, Donald Trump signed a blizzard of executive orders. Nearly two-thirds of them came straight from Project 2025, the corporate-backed right-wing policy blueprint that Trump disavowed on the campaign trail.
Donald Trump’s first executive orders should dispel any fantasy of him as either a noninterventionist or an economic populist.
Despite the cost-of-living crisis, Australian Labor PM Anthony Albanese says that spending $246 billion on US nuclear submarines is “clear-eyed pragmatism.” But with Donald Trump in the White House, Labor’s love for American power goes far beyond realism.
Democrats want us to believe that there is some cohort of “good billionaires” who can be relied upon to fight for political progress. But as the right-wing turn of tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk suggests, this is nonsense.
Over the last 15 months, more than 100,000 Palestinians have escaped to Egypt. They pay thousands of dollars a head to escape the Gaza Strip — but upon reaching Cairo face a future without jobs, rights, or even the ability to leave.
Donald Trump says Greenland should be part of the US, while Denmark insists it won’t happen. But Greenlanders have dreams of their own: economic independence and freedom from foreign control.
Right-wing dark money groups are lobbying for the US and state governments to invest billions of dollars in Bitcoin reserves, jeopardizing public funds and the environment alike.
For the first time since the 1990s, the US has reestablished a direct military presence in Scotland. As Washington builds up its new Cold War, Scotland’s political class is its willing servant.
Donald Trump offers a bleak vision of the good life, founded on hierarchy and self-indulgence. The Left needs to put forward a politics that can counter the affective pleasures of Trumpism, rooted in solidarity rather than cruelty and exclusion.
As Donald Trump takes office, various factions within the GOP are vying to assert their dominance. Among them are the “Groypers,” the furthest-right fringe of Trump’s coalition, who want the party to adopt an overtly white nationalist agenda.
Donald Trump’s recent blustery foreign policy proclamations have many pundits scratching their heads. They should be seen as part of a broader project of reasserting US hegemony in the Americas and pushing back on Chinese geopolitical influence.