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New York City Hall has traditionally had an antagonistic relationship with the city’s municipal workforce. Mayor Zohran Mamdani can chart a new course, working collaboratively with city workers to deliver better public services.
In China, the number of single-person households has increased along with rates of loneliness. In this respect, China is not unique. It is simply suffering from the same social dislocation affecting all advanced capitalist states.
In Wisconsin, state assembly member and democratic socialist Francesca Hong has announced she is running for governor. We spoke to her about the campaign.
Military veterans are more likely than other Americans to work union jobs. Vets in the labor movement have increasingly joined and led fights against Donald Trump’s attacks on Veterans Affairs and on federal workers’ jobs and collective bargaining rights.
In the wake of protests over West Bank real estate, Toronto has ring-fenced public space around dozens of synagogues. This expansion of “bubble zones” has less to do with real danger than with political lawfare against critics of Israel.
Norristown, Pennsylvania, is a majority-renter town with deep industrial roots. New councilmember David McMahon explains why the suburbs aren’t a monolith — and why suburbs like his are fertile ground for socialist organizing.
The attack on Venezuela marks the arrival of the Sopranos stage of imperialism: the transformation of US hegemony into naked extortion. As with the Mafia, loyalty may ultimately buy nothing, and deals can be broken at gunpoint.
Centrist Democratic leaders like Hakeem Jeffries have taken to calling socialists “Team Gentrification.” Strange, since those same establishment Democrats take real estate cash while socialist candidates like Zohran Mamdani fight for affordable housing.
With Atlanticism fraying, Nazi thinker Carl Schmitt is being reread in Germany as a theorist of a world divided into power blocs, a reading that Donald Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine” is helping to underscore.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has only existed since 2003. There’s nothing extreme about the idea of disbanding the rogue agency.
When Barack Obama and Joe Biden occupied the White House, Democrats gave excuse after excuse about why they couldn’t take bold action. Donald Trump’s second-term rampage of executive power shows Democratic presidents were not as powerless as they claimed.
There’s nothing Britain’s political class likes more than a mob of football hooligans, so long as they’re Israeli. Now the Starmer government has moved to punish police officers for declining to accommodate Maccabi Tel Aviv’s notoriously racist fans.