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Frantz Durupt is a journalist at French daily Libération.
In Canada, physician-assisted suicide is available even to people who aren’t suffering from terminal illnesses. In the context of austerity, this often means people are offered death rather than the material support that could alleviate their suffering.
British Columbia’s housing crisis is severe, but its root causes are familiar: exclusionary zoning, under-building, and chronic neglect of nonmarket housing. Economist Alex Hemingway’s proposals show how governments could reverse course, in BC and elsewhere.
Don’t buy into the doomerism about music. From Sam Fender and billy woods to Stereolab and Lambrini Girls, artists are using their music to capture the anger and unrest of our era.
Europe has often called itself a global leader in fighting climate change, even promising to halt the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. Yet now it’s dropped the plan, as part of a broader retreat from the green transition.
Talks over an American-Russian peace plan seek to impose a harsh settlement on Ukraine. Faced with the carve-up of territory, it’s vital to build an international peace movement opposing the logic of imperialist blocs.
Fifty years ago, Polish director Andrzej Wajda produced one of the most astonishing films about the rise of capitalism ever made. The Promised Land is an unforgettable picture of early industrial exploitation that still feels contemporary.
How the socialist left and the anti-Trump Resistance are slowly but surely learning to work together.
Gaza used to have twelve higher-education institutions. Over the last two years, Israel partly or totally destroyed every one of them in its campaign to crush Palestinian public life and ruin its chances of recovery.
Donald Trump’s meddling in Honduras’s national election aims to return the disgraced party of the narcotrafficking ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández to power.
On this day 20 years ago, New York City transit workers launched an illegal strike. It ended in a bitter defeat that hobbled the union for years and discouraged public sector labor militancy more widely. What lessons can we draw from the strike today?
Abdullah Öcalan’s Kurdistan Workers’ Party is engaged in high-stakes negotiations with the Turkish government over a peace settlement. The outcome will shape the future for Kurds throughout the region, including the PKK’s sister parties in Syria and Iran.
A separatist group backed by the United Arab Emirates has seized power in Yemen’s two biggest districts. It’s part of an intensifying power struggle between Saudi and Emirati elites, with the people of both Yemen and Sudan suffering the consequences.
Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’s Netflix documentary Cover-Up follows the life and work of legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh. Cover-Up depicts the kind of maverick journalism we desperately need in our authoritarian times.
Driven by the AI boom, chip manufacturers are pivoting production lines toward megacorporate clients. The move will make consumer electronics even less affordable.
Steve Bannon’s whole pitch is that he’s leading a movement against a decadent, borderless elite. Except according to newly released messages and emails, that movement has been heavily reliant on the most decadent, borderless elite of all: Jeffrey Epstein.
Cleaners at London Heathrow have begun a strike that could last until the end of the year. While subcontractors pay them only the legal minimum, they’re demanding that the airport live up to its proclaimed standards as a Living Wage employer.
Interacting with the neoconservative intellectual Norman Podhoretz, you felt desire. But it wasn’t a desire for ideas; it was a desire for being thought of as someone who was adept at ideas.
Over the years, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been torn between different approaches to identity and class. She’s no stranger to a universalist approach that emphasizes economic inequality and common struggle. If she runs for president, that’s the ticket.
Dating apps have transformed intimacy into a marketplace of frustration. They fuel gender conflict while ruthlessly extracting value from our most intimate desires.
The small Iraqi town of Haditha was the site of a notorious 2005 massacre in which US Marines killed two dozen civilians. Twenty years later, our reporter speaks with the family members who survived and are still waiting for justice.