D. K. Renton’s new book tackles the thorny subject of revolutionary forgiveness. Few can accept preemptive forgiveness of their persecutors: we have to have some faith in the future, that there will be a little less pain when we build the world to come.
After nearly a quarter century of AKP dominance, Turkey’s main opposition party, the CHP, remains unable to name its program, organize its social base, or break with the political culture that has made it so easy to defeat.
Nobody wants to join a boring movement. Socialists can’t change the world if we aren’t providing people with a good time.
Gad Saad is a staple of the anti-woke dark web. But his new book, Suicidal Empathy, is proof that the supposedly “intellectual” wing of the New Right is running on fumes.
A wave of tour cancellations. Ticket website crashes. Iran war fuel surges. Fans going into debt to attend festivals. Welcome to the misery that is live music in 2026.
The Scottish National Party’s former chief executive Peter Murrell has pled guilty to embezzling £400,000. While the Scottish independence movement promised deeper democracy, the SNP leadership has operated like a cartel.
Reality show villain and Donald Trump–endorsed Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt has turned his bitter grievances and dark fantasies into a viable campaign. But LA needs a political vision larger than one celebrity’s personal ambition and rage.
Tony Blair’s capacity for malevolence appears to be without limit. Blair’s latest intervention in British politics is yet another bid to make the world an uglier, nastier place, brought to you in association with his tech billionaire sponsors.
Bhaskar Sunkara reflects on the rise, defeat, and possible renewal of socialism — and on the generations of ordinary people who fought to build a world beyond class domination.
Online doctor influencers have enormous audiences, partly built on their criticisms of the dysfunction of America’s health care system. So why do they never discuss Medicare for All, the universal program designed to address the problems they denounce?
After a long delay, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has passed a state budget — a budget that does almost nothing to protect the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers about to lose health care and food stamps due to Donald Trump’s federal budget cuts.
Central bank independence has been a sacred cow for the last generation in the major capitalist economies. Donald Trump’s appointment of Kevin Warsh as Fed chair symbolizes the beginning of a new era based on overt politicization of monetary policy.