Gaza Will Forever Haunt Joe Biden
Joe Biden’s enabling of a genocide in Palestine was in keeping with a career spent pushing bloody war in the Middle East. His action and inaction on Gaza was brutal, unjustifiable, and unforgivable.
19399 Articles by: Yi San
Yi San is a freelance writer based in New York.
The Coming Battle for Greenland
Greenland, rich in minerals, faces pressures from Donald Trump’s aggressive purchase ambitions and competing global interests. Without a sensible resolution, Greenland risks exploitation that will reduce it to an energy sacrifice zone.
No, Mexico Is Not a Trojan Horse for Chinese Exports
Both Democrats and Republicans now claim that Mexico has become a back door for Chinese goods to enter the United States. There’s little evidence for it, but that hasn’t stopped the US from bullying its southern neighbor.
The Fire Next Time
Almost 60 years ago, Joan Didion wrote that “the city burning is Los Angeles’s deepest image of itself.” Since then, insurance companies and developers have prioritized short-term profits over housing resilience and affordability for Californians.
The Democrats Helped Bring About Trump’s Return
Tomorrow Donald Trump will take the oath of office again. By spurning economic populism and embracing Bush-era Republicans, Democrats helped pave the way for his second inauguration.
Jared Kushner May Profit From Expanded Israeli Settlements
On Wednesday, Jared Kushner doubled his stake in a financial firm that stands to gain from turbocharging illegal Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory — just before the announcement of a cease-fire deal that Kushner may have helped advise on.
After LA’s Fires, Don’t Weep for the Insurance Companies
It is absurd to suggest that insurance companies have been blindsided by increasing climate risks. On the contrary, they’ve been fully aware, highly prepared, and hard at work protecting profits at the expense of policyholders.
The TikTok Ban Won’t Help
The TikTok ban is about US tech hegemony, not national security or protecting Americans’ data, which homegrown social media companies make a business of collecting and selling.
How Mark Zuckerberg Fell for the Republican Right
Mark Zuckerberg’s embrace of the Republican Party has come as a surprise to those who identified him and Meta with the progressive wing of the Democrats. In reality, he has long championed right-wing causes from school privatization to government deregulation.
France’s Parti Socialiste Agrees to Bad Deal With Macronists
On Thursday, France’s Parti Socialiste refused to back a motion of no confidence in François Bayrou’s government. It sold out its left-wing allies for feeble concessions, renewing the party’s dismal record of tailing neoliberal centrists.
Capitalist Housing Markets Make Natural Disasters Worse
From price gouging to risky developing to insurance dysfunction, the dynamics of private housing markets are making the Los Angeles fire disaster considerably worse. We don’t need to prioritize real estate profits over people’s housing needs.
On Foreign Policy, Biden Leaves a Global Trail of Destruction
There is no ambiguity about President Joe Biden’s foreign policy record: it was bloody, and it was disastrous.
South Korea’s Conservatives Are Trying to Cling to Power
South Korea’s right-wing president, Yoon Suk-yeol, has finally been arrested after his attempt to stage a coup. But Yoon’s supporters are still mobilizing aggressively, hoping that Donald Trump will take their side over false claims of electoral fraud.
Is Donald Trump a William McKinley or an Andrew Jackson?
The Trump presidency is not a pathology of mass politics. It’s a problem of our billionaire political economy.
RIP to David Lynch, Mysterious, Bizarre, and All-American
Director David Lynch, who died this week at 78, brought an avant-garde sensibility into the American mainstream when we needed it most. There will never be another like him.
At Home, Joe Biden Squandered Countless Opportunities
After nearly half a century as a key figurehead in the Democratic Party’s rightward turn on domestic politics, Joe Biden had a chance to undo some of that damage as president. Time after time, he blew it.
The Media Covered LA’s Climate Disaster Like an Action Movie
TV networks turned the Los Angeles fires into a sensationalist spectacle, repeating words like “inferno” on a loop while almost completely avoiding any mention of climate change. Their coverage treated the disaster as entertainment rather than a warning.
Assessing AMLO: The Path to Power
Mexico’s staunchly left-populist former president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, just spent six years in power. But his road to the National Palace was anything but a straight line.
Better Man Is a Standard Biopic, Slightly Monkeyed With
A CGI simian twist isn’t enough to turn Better Man into anything more than a by-the-numbers Robbie Williams biopic.
Biden Is Ignoring Environmental Concerns to Boost AI
Joe Biden’s own Energy Department is warning that data centers’ energy consumption, water use, and emissions are already skyrocketing amid droughts and climate disasters. Biden just signed an executive order to accelerate an AI build-out anyway.