In March, the Trump administration revoked the legal status of 532,000 Latin American immigrants here under the “humanitarian parole” system. Affected workers in Louisville, Kentucky, have seen an outpouring of support from the local labor movement.
Months after the fires, Los Angeles is beginning to rebuild, but current proposals don’t address the city’s long-standing housing issues. LA should emulate Singapore, which took a devastating fire as a cue to revolutionize its housing market.
The neoliberal economic program embraced by the Clinton-era Democratic Party alienated many working-class voters. Democrats responded by reorienting their electoral strategy toward professional-class voters, accelerating workers’ departure from the party.
Many liberal commentators are invoking the Constitution as a bulwark against Donald Trump’s attacks on civil liberties. The truth is, our nation’s antidemocratic founding document has allowed the authoritarian right to entrench its power.
What does it say about the state of Israel and its backers that it can get away with repeated attacks on aid shipments to Palestinian civilians?
This week is the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. The poisonous Agent Orange used by the US in the war continues to have destructive effects on the Vietnamese people, harms for which the US government still bears responsibility.
Big tech’s woke era may be over for now. But wealthy elites like Mark Zuckerberg will continue to find philanthropic giving a preferred way to control their wealth and expand their influence, no matter what causes their money goes to.
Ultranationalist Călin Georgescu was barred from Romania’s presidential election, but now another far-right candidate has taken over his poll lead. To defeat them requires real social policies, not just calls to stop extremism.
A stabbing at a southern French mosque last Friday sparked terror and protest among France’s Muslims. Yet many top politicians refuse to speak of “Islamophobia,” instead leaning into far-right narratives of the Islamic danger to France.
Abdullah Öcalan, a founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, made a surprise call in February for the PKK to lay down its arms. Whether there will be a just peace now depends on the willingness of Turkey’s political parties to support the new settlement.
Corporations are set to use Trump’s trade war as justification for raising prices, just as they previously used supply chain slowdowns. But a new Federal Reserve study notes that higher prices have coincided with a big increase in payouts to shareholders.
The Legend of Ochi, a new A24 family film, combines live action, CGI, and old-fashioned puppetry to charming effect.