Donald Trump’s popularity may be waning, but the political-economic conditions that gave rise to Trumpism remain, Adolph Reed argues. To defeat the Right, the Left needs to rebuild durable working-class organization and a universalistic politics.
The rival blocs contesting Israel’s general election differ over many questions, but they converge in their opposition to a Palestinian state. Even if Benjamin Netanyahu loses power, the occupation will continue.
Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump’s ambassador to Greece, has resigned. Her farewell statement lays bare the bigger story: how American exporters and Greek capital collude to make ordinary households foot the bill for their new energy order.
Israel’s election on Tuesday is the first since October 7, 2023. Even if Benjamin Netanyahu’s government loses, it’s unlikely to lead to a real shift in Israeli policy.
To understand the global appeal of the far right, look to Brazil, where Bolsonarismo has capitalized on social disintegration to cement brute exploitation as the dominant social logic.
The economist Hyman Minsky died 30 years ago today. Best known for his theory of financial instability, Minsky developed a view of capitalism and its mutations that was far more radical than many of those who cite his work appreciate.
Rather than slink back from its globally condemned genocidal conduct over the past three years, Israel is actually ratcheting up its psychotically bloody and illegal conduct right now.
A sudden offensive by Ansar Allah this summer took its Yemeni opponents and their Saudi allies by surprise. But the resumption of conflict is likely to be long and protracted, with disastrous consequences for Yemen’s civilian population.
The Milwaukee Brewers are in the World Series for the first time since 1982. The small-market team’s success this season is a reminder of Milwaukee baseball’s progressive heritage and the city’s proud socialist history.
Vancouver’s Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) elected all 12 candidates it ran in the city’s recent election. The democratic socialist party is now part of a progressive council majority.
Victory for Flávio Bolsonaro in Brazil’s election would bring mafiosi to power and reward interference by the White House and Miami reactionaries. In the final stretch of the campaign, Bolsonaro no longer looks invincible.
If you want to know whether artificial intelligence is a gigantic economic bubble, don’t just take pundits’ word for it. Major investors are now moving their money to try to protect themselves from the AI bubble popping.