A new book makes the most rigorous case yet for why so few working-class people hold office. But by treating the lack of workers in office as a law of electoral democracy, its authors underrate how much organized workers could change it.
Far-right Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella seeks the return of the disastrous Plan Colombia, this time inviting US troops for joint operations, per Pete Hegseth. The opposition says it’s a violation of Colombians’ rights.
A complacent view contrasts the freedom of the US internet with the tight regimentation of the Chinese version. In reality, the two seem to be converging around a model of state and oligarchic control over online communities and debates.
Centrist Democrats like potential 2028 presidential candidate Rahm Emanuel are presenting heightened great-power rivalry as the path to US national renewal. Socialists need to articulate an alternative to their New Cold War fantasies.
Britain’s Labour government has brought forward a bill that’s supposed to address the legacy of the Troubles in the North of Ireland. But the latest changes to the bill will shield British soldiers from any threat of being prosecuted for their crimes.
Employees at Dattner, the firm behind some of New York City’s most distinctive public buildings, from subway stations to sanitation facilities, are organizing with the International Association of Machinists and seeking a card-check neutrality agreement.
It started as an online joke after a top judge compared jobless young people to cockroaches. It has become the most serious challenge to Narendra Modi’s rule in years.
Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning is a sequel to The Social Network that insists it isn’t one and a political film that insists it has no politics. Audiences have noticed, and they’re staying home.
Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Church was a smash hit among evangelical Christians in the 1990s. It’s about how to build growing, vibrant churches. But it can also be read by socialists today to figure out how to grow our movement.
In September, Swedish voters defeated a governing coalition that the far right had propped up. But the Center Party is now blocking a new government because it wants to keep Left Party ministers out of the cabinet.
The protests in schools across France have highlighted “rural deserts” of underfunded services. Massive in scale, the movement is reenergizing the election campaign by bringing social issues of left-behind areas more sharply into focus.
Ankara’s new defense pact with Riyadh risks drawing Turkey into the war in Yemen. The country’s past experience offers a grim reminder of how ordinary Turks pay for such entanglements.