Why Is It So Hard to Imagine the End of American Empire?
Americans’ muted reaction to the quarter-century anniversary of 9/11 reveals a waning zeal for the American imperial project. We tolerate it only because we believe it can’t end. But it can.
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The GOP’s Enemy #1 for the Midterms: Socialism
Donald Trump and the Republicans want you to be terrified of socialists. But they really don’t want to talk about our core economic policies, because the moment you spell those policies out, they sound pretty good.
Universities Are Teaching the Virtue of Overwork
At American universities, nap pods and meditation apps paper over backbreaking workloads. As higher education increasingly conforms to corporate logic, its most durable product becomes a student with a proven capacity for overwork.
The Discreet Charm of John Berger
Art critic, novelist, Marxist, lover, exile, storyteller: John Berger resisted every easy definition. His new biography embraces the contradictions he left behind.
Guerrilla Cinema
Five essential films from Third Cinema, the militant movement that turned filmmaking into anti-imperialist struggle.
Agitslop
The Trump administration appropriates 250 years’ worth of American propaganda.
Ibrahim Traoré Would Like to Be Thomas Sankara’s Heir
Burkina Faso’s military leader has styled himself as the political heir to Thomas Sankara. However, the substance of Traoré’s record since taking power in 2022 is much less ambitious than Sankara’s agenda as president in the 1980s.
The Many Casualties of Precision Warfare
Behind the myth of surgical strikes lies a coalition architecture designed to ensure no single nation takes the blame when civilians die.
Who Monitors the UAW’s Federal Monitor?
Shawn Fain’s reform administration in the United Auto Workers now finds itself locked in conflict with a federal anti-corruption monitor who Fain says is overstepping his bounds —including in opposing the union’s stance against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.