Yi San is a freelance writer based in New York.
A variety of shadowy private security and weapons firms have been tapped to provide firearms and combat training to ICE agents. They are among the many private entities lining up for their cut of the Trump administration’s deportation spending blitz.
The Czech Republic’s new environment minister is leader of a pro–fossil fuel party called Motorists for Themselves. It’s part of a right-wing backlash in Europe, moving to kill off the EU’s Green Deal.
It’s time we see ICE as it already sees itself: a domestic army dispatched by the Trump administration to terrorize vulnerable people and violently intimidate political enemies into submission.
New York taxi drivers have long been mercilessly squeezed by the city, culminating in their 2021 hunger strike joined by Zohran Mamdani. Announcing a new taxi commissioner yesterday, Mayor Mamdani promised a break with that past.
The Federal Reserve has quietly delivered nearly half a trillion dollars to Wall Street with few strings attached over the past few months. These cash infusions could signal instability in the broader financial sector.
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good in the head last week, Republicans declared that Americans would overwhelmingly support the killing. In reality, the vast majority find the murder unjustified.
As Donald Trump threatens a military attack on Iran, shadowy conservative groups working to gut consumer protections and roll back abortion rights have also been pouring millions into influential think tanks advocating for regime change in the country.
Today marks 15 years since the overthrow of Tunisian dictator Ben Ali, one of the high points of the Arab Spring. The events of 2011 gave rise to an impressive wave of revolutions. Almost all were bloodily suppressed.
Nearly 15,000 nurses are now on strike at three New York City private sector hospitals, in the largest nurses’ strike the city has ever seen. Nurses say they are striking to end understaffing that burns out nurses and endangers patients.
ICE appears to be reveling in the hypocrisy and double standards that the Trump administration’s unqualified defense of their sickeningly violent and occasionally murderous behavior, against Renee Good and innumerable others, has given them license to indulge in.
The genocide in Gaza radicalizes Zionism’s long-standing colonial project. But Israeli leaders’ open rejection of any future possibility of a Palestinian state have undercut their own international legitimacy.
The report behind Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s updated dietary guidelines didn’t eliminate food and pharmaceutical industry influence over Health and Human Services decisions. It did the exact opposite.
Donald Trump is making the United States’ affordability crisis worse and suffering historically low approval ratings. He is likely hoping wars abroad will divert the public’s attention from his domestic policy failures.
Like Renee Good’s murder in Minnesota, the Bloody Sunday massacre in Ireland was notable for both the blatancy of the crime, carried out in broad daylight, and the audacity of the lies pumped out from the highest levels of the state.
The failed push to sink Zohran Mamdani’s appointment of tenant organizer Cea Weaver was an attempt to remove a highly effective advocate for renters, who landlords and the real estate industry hate because she has consistently defeated them.
Emily Witt’s memoir begins with the Brooklyn and Berlin underground rave scenes and the appeal of subcultural escapism. What follows is a reckoning with the social conflicts of the present and journalists’ role in a time of rising authoritarianism.
For decades, American Jews were assumed to be uncritical supporters of Israel. But Israel’s war in Gaza transformed Jewish politics in the US and irrevocably undermined the legitimacy of institutions that sustain Zionism.
The first decades following the Russian Revolution saw enormous changes in women’s social role, but early promises of liberation were soon stifled. The record of women’s struggle is among the revolution’s most precious legacies.
Roger Toussaint, former president of Transport Workers Union Local 100, challenges the claim that New York’s last great transit strike weakened labor — and explains why its real legacy has been obscured.
Today liberals lead the call for abundance. But if they really want to deliver plenty for all, they’ll need to confront the entrenched power of the capitalist class.