Human rights groups based in the West Bank have long documented Israel’s crimes — and that’s why they’re now subject to US sanctions. The US government is trying to make their work impossible in order to protect Israel from scrutiny.
According to philosopher Susan Neiman, the Left abandons the concept of good and evil at our own peril. If we refuse to use such morally freighted language, we concede it entirely to people who will use it for immoral ends.
On Sunday, Germany’s socialist party Die Linke won the Berlin elections for the first time. Like New York’s Zohran Mamdani, it beat the establishment parties by offering Berliners concrete action on rents and the cost of living.
Vivek Chibber recommends five books that explain how empires work, how capitalism divides the world, and how Marxists have argued about imperialism.
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire became a campus sensation because it offered a master theory for globalization at a moment when old Marxist categories seemed exhausted. But the capitalist internationalism they saw as permanent has now crashed and burned.
Intelligence agencies like the CIA have been cultivating ties with universities for decades. They use money and influence to co-opt research and foster a benign image of their role at the expense of academic independence and freedom.
It used to be that Americans turned to GoFundMe to pay off their medical bills in a dysfunctional, privatized health care system. Now they’re doing it just to afford groceries.
Recent weeks have seen a flurry of discussion over potential artificial intelligence doomsday scenarios. We shouldn’t forget that AI is already killing people, as it is increasingly used to direct weapons systems with minimal human oversight.
Instead of inspiring an awakening as filmmakers hope, The Uprising repeats tired liberal calls for “healing,” and, when those disappoint, turns to fantasies of individual violence. The real 1381 English Peasants’ Revolt, however, still inspires us centuries later.
Three years ago, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain called for American unions to line up contract expirations for May Day 2028 to set the stage for a potential mass strike. How are the prospects of this coordinated action looking now?
Plenty of contemporary comedy gazes upon American stupidity and concludes that Americans are stupid. The Chapo Trap House anthology Chunks suggests instead that people behave strangely because the world around them has become so strange.
The Caribbean of the 1970s was marked by major political and social upheaval. Cricket became a primary vehicle for asserting West Indian independence — and defeating England was paramount.