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As the 2026 World Cricket Cup unfolds under diplomatic strain, rising tensions between India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh show that the sport is no longer just a game but a stage where politics, nationalism, and media capital collide.
Artificial intelligence is unlikely to produce permanent mass unemployment, Vivek Chibber argues. But without class struggle from below and state action, automation will deepen inequality and leave workers to bear its costs.
Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani met for a second time on Thursday. The meeting was conciliatory, with Mamdani having apparently hypnotized Trump with charisma and overt flattery. It’s both a savvy and potentially perilous strategy.
In Spain, labor minister and Sumar leader Yolanda Díaz says she won’t run for office again. Yet while she is stepping aside, there are also growing calls for a united left-wing front to fight in next year’s general election.
In 1980s Lebanon, the Communists were often targets for rising Islamist forces. Yet today the weakening of Hezbollah offers little opening for left-wing politics.
How to Make a Killing, starring Glen Powell, is a modern-day remake of a 1949 British black comedy classic. But whereas the original found comedy in the ruthless murder of a nasty aristocracy, this remake is far too timid for our times.
The Epstein files show that while private equity giant Apollo Global Management allegedly stripped companies, wiped out small investors, and misled customers about fees, founder and Jeffrey Epstein confidant Leon Black spent millions on art and parties.
As agrochemical giants and data monopolies consolidate control over seeds, the food system becomes ever more fragile. Humanity has domesticated thousands of crops but, in pursuit of profit, corporations have winnowed that heritage down to a handful.
Claiming to be working to stop corporate landlords from buying up single-family homes, an industry-backed GOP senator is circulating legislation that could block states from regulating the institutional investors purchasing hundreds of thousands of homes.
In Britain, Thursday’s Gorton and Denton by-election was a historic victory for the Greens. Labour prime minister Keir Starmer chased the Left out of his party, and he is now seeing its voter base collapse.
Democrats in Congress may be failing to meaningfully check ICE, but that’s not the story in towns and cities. There progressive and socialist lawmakers are working with local movements to craft ways to push back on the agency’s authoritarianism.
In California, the United Auto Workers are calling on the state to make major investments in green energy, while also making sure these investments provide good union jobs and products that are affordable for working-class consumers.