At tonight’s VP debate, two US military veterans, Tim Walz and J. D. Vance, will face off. Walz has a chance to stand up against the dangerous privatization of Veterans Affairs — which Biden has overseen and Trump and Vance are promising to push further.
Trump’s appointees hold us all in contempt.
Compact’s Sohrab Ahmari is among a group of populists who see a home in a changing Republican Party. We asked him for his perspective on the November election and what comes next.
At this summer’s National Conservatism Conference, reactionaries — many of whom were close to or worked within the Trump administration — felt the wind was at their backs.
The political singularity consumes us all.
The far right just doesn’t read like it used to.
Jacobin Joins the #Resistance
For centuries, working-class musicians have raged against the machine.
When German fascism came to power, it interrupted a revolutionary experiment in freedom exemplified by two classical composers: Arnold Schoenberg and Hanns Eisler.
Except this time, a bit more off-key than usual.
Since 9/11, US law enforcement has sent thousands of officers and millions of dollars to Israel, returning with new surveillance technologies and violent policing tactics to try out on American streets.