Jonathan Sas has worked in senior policy and political roles in government, think tanks, and the labor movement. He is an honorary witness to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. His writing has appeared in the Toronto Star, National Post, the Tyee, and Maisonneuve.
As democratic socialism returns to the US public eye, socialists need to make clear how their vision differs from the liberalism most Americans are familiar with. Here are five crucial distinctive elements of a socialist policy agenda.
Ireland’s taoiseach, Micheál Martin, will be paying homage to Donald Trump on St Patrick’s Day. Irish public opinion is strongly opposed to the US war on Iran and the Gaza genocide, but Martin and his allies are anxious to stay on Trump’s good side.
The death of French far-right activist Quentin Deranque one month ago has cast a shadow over elections typically focused on local concerns.
In Minneapolis, a new generation of activists is challenging Donald Trump, reviving labor militancy, and scoring victories. Next stop: May Day 2026.
Our male protagonists — or perhaps men more broadly — are searching for meaning, solace, or glory anywhere but in the workplace. The trend represents a collective ambiguity about the point of work.
We’re living in the imperial end times, argues Hasan Piker. With Trump entering a quagmire in Iran after having cast off America’s allies, a new era of belligerence, cruelty, and MAGA fascism looms over the home front.
As US power declines, it is destroying the norms and institutions that once organized its international projection of authority. While the US is losing its leadership role, no single power is replacing it as a global hegemon.
Europe’s far-right parties have long boasted about putting their own countries’ interests first but now slavishly support the latest US-Israeli war. While they opt for vassalage, antiwar forces have turned out to be the real defenders of sovereignty.
Donald Trump’s efforts to blockade Cuba’s fuel supply aim to create chaos. Now more than ever, Cuba needs practical international solidarity to resist US imperialist bullying.
As the US attacks Iran, Donald Trump is following a blueprint laid out by a long-standing force in US foreign policy: the neocons who backed the Iraq War more than 20 years ago.
Donald Trump fired Kristi Noem for embarrassing him on TV, not for the civil rights catastrophe she oversaw at Homeland Security. Her replacement, Markwayne Mullin, is a loyal Trump ally who promises more of the same egregious overreach and abuse.
Centrist Democrats claim to be the bearers of hard facts, dismissing leftist dissent as emotional and naive. But their “facts” are often a mishmash of consultant data, selectively interpreted focus groups, and big donor priorities.
AI-assisted warfare extends a logic with roots in the industrial warfare of the 20th century: a cold distance that turns humans into points in a dataset.
The US bombing campaign in Iran relies heavily on British military bases. For a moment, it seemed Keir Starmer might refuse Washington access, but he has proved too cowardly to make even this basic stand for human rights against imperial war.
Youth sports should be about fun and fair play — not turning kids into anxious investments for parents and private equity.
Years and years before gangster rap, satanic lyrics, glam rock, and Led Zeppelin’s groupie antics, good old-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll — the chosen music of the postwar youth — roused nothing less than a full-blown moral panic across America. Here are the songs most responsible.
We surveyed 1,789 socialist teens. Here’s what they’re reading before prom.
Public spaces are replete with laws and design choices that limit teens’ access to them.
