The moments of doubt and self-criticism in Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s memoir of growing up as the child of two Weather Underground leaders offer a history of the 1960s and ’70s that can inform healthier and more effective left strategy today.
The head investment officer of California’s teachers’ pension fund has fought efforts to divest the fund from fossil fuels — while personally trading more than $1 million in oil- and gas-related stocks.
Socialist Maurice Brown has served as a county legislator in the Syracuse area since 2024. Now he is running to replace one of the New York State Assembly’s longest-serving members, who Brown describes as an obstacle to progressive change.
Nicolas Cage’s black-and-white Spider-Man spin-off, Spider-Noir, recycles all of the tropes of the classic 1940s film genre. But all the femme fatales and wisecracking detectives can’t keep Spider-Noir from feeling like a lifeless museum piece.
There are so many insane things happening at any given moment under Donald Trump that it can be easy to forget that this is the most spasmodic, scandal-plagued presidential administration the United States has ever seen.
Commentators are pinning low fertility rates on everything from feminism to smartphones. But they miss one glaring factor: capitalism, an economic system predicated on individual autonomy and naked self-interest whose incentives run counter to child-rearing.
While outwardly neutral, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has been quietly putting his thumb on the scale in the Iowa Senate primary, with millions in PAC money flowing only toward the establishment-friendly candidate.
Too many of us in left politics today have a deep-seated resistance to seeking, taking, and wielding power. We have to overcome that resistance.
The fact that Graham Platner still holds a general election lead amid scandalous personal revelations should give us hope. Voters may be shifting to judge politicians more on their willingness to take on economic inequality and war than their private lives.
Since the end of the Cold War, European and US liberals have claimed to defend a “rules-based international order.” Often a fiction, even the pretense has now vanished under the rubble of Gaza.
Far-right Abelardo de la Espriella topped the first round of Colombia’s presidential election. Left-wing senator Iván Cepeda is still in the race but now has to find support outside the ruling party’s core vote.
Two progressives — Justice Democrats cofounder Saikat Chakrabarti and union-backed city hall veteran Connie Chan — are fighting to advance past the primary for Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat. Their race has become a referendum on the SF left’s future.