Alberta’s right-wing separatist push, driven by political opportunism and petro power, could pose a serious challenge to Canadian democracy — with potentially wide-ranging consequences for workers, the economy, public services, and the country as a whole.
A cease-fire deal pulled India and Pakistan back from the brink of conflict, but the danger hasn’t gone away. The ongoing denial of democratic rights in Kashmir ensures that the region will remain a source of instability and potential conflict.
As Donald Trump changes his tune on cutting taxes for the rich, House Republicans are scrambling to save their personal tax cuts.
Corporate America and the rich have used anti-racism to distract from broader inequality. Ensuring that every racial group has identical access to society’s limited resources does nothing to change an economy that exploits the many to enrich the few.
GOP lawmakers have just added a ten-year federal preemption of state-level artificial intelligence laws to the House’s budget reconciliation bill — effectively nullifying all local efforts to regulate AI technology.
Public broadcasting isn’t the enemy of free speech. Profit-driven media is. Trump’s attack on NPR and PBS distracts from the real path away from censorship and toward viewpoint diversity: a large, democratically controlled, publicly funded media ecosystem.
Recent Canadian legislation allows for a way forward in the face of trade shocks: give workers more ownership and control. Democratically run firms could offer workers everywhere a path toward stability, fairness, and long-term economic strength.
In the 1990s, Democrats adopted a neoliberal program to suit the needs of capital, driving many workers out. The party then adopted a political strategy meant to replace working-class voters with professionals — with disastrous consequences.
With Donald Trump’s cease-fire deal with Yemen, we now have the same outcome that we would have had if Trump had never started bombing Yemen in the first place.
Donald Trump’s federal budget for 2026 would funnel more money to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security — and proposes deep cuts to almost everything else.
Sri Lanka’s new left-wing government has already been tested by tariff shocks and IMF pressure. Either it can radically reform a broken export-led model, or else give up on the promise it offered to working people.
New York City’s mayoral race is in full swing. Yet the front-runner, disgraced former governor and champion of corporate interests Andrew Cuomo, is nowhere to be found.