Eugene Debs’s greatest achievement was not any particular vote tally. It was his making socialist partisans understand that the socialist movement arose out of the American political tradition’s most democratic currents.
Andy Burnham and his foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, have adopted a more critical tone toward Israel in a bid to win back progressive voters to the Labour Party. But the fundamentals of Britain’s close alliance with Israel remain largely unchanged.
Founded in 1937, the Southern Negro Youth Congress was a key player in the radical wing of the early phase of the civil rights movement.
The term “cultural Marxism” has become one of the main rallying cries for the international right. This lurid conspiracy theory about the influence of the Frankfurt School has little connection to reality, but that doesn’t make it any less dangerous.
Abdul El-Sayed’s ease in talking sports built rapport with skeptical voters and defies the stereotype of progressives hating what average people find fun. His knack for finding common ground is central to his broad political appeal.
In Israel’s recent elections, Palestinians in Israel voted in unprecedented numbers — using one of the last remaining means at their disposal to challenge Israeli Jewish politics.
Figures at top AI firms says that their frontier models are running out of control. It points to a problem Big Tech finds harder to admit: the rise of a predatory computational power driven solely by profit-seeking.
During the war against ISIS, the Kurds were feted in Britain as heroes. Today the stateless Kurdish population is increasingly demonized as a source of illegal immigrants and people smugglers.
Last week’s votes on taxing billionaires, abortion and trans rights, and divestment from Israel offer a window into the American electorate’s political mood.
PowerNYC, a public clean energy developer in New York, could be Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s climate engine, lowering costs and creating a more resilient, greener electricity grid for New Yorkers.
Katharina Pistor argues that capitalism is a legal regime we can transform by rewiring private law. But a reform program that ignores the wage relation and the exploitation of labor will leave the core of capitalism untouched.
Unlike other Trump administration officials who have gotten, or may soon get, the axe, Veteran Affairs head Doug Collins seems safe in his position. In the absence of legislative and grassroots pushback, he is set to continue dismantling the VA.