Violent Night Is a Ho-Hum Holiday Hit
With Violent Night, we were promised a deranged, Santa-meets-Die-Hard flick shorn of holiday schmaltz. Instead, the action-comedy just another soppy movie about the Christmas spirit.
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The Arms Industry Owns Congress
The new $850 billion military budget, which the House just approved and the Senate will take up soon, is a giveaway to the arms industry. Is it a coincidence that House supporters of the bill got seven times more money from military contractors than opponents?
Crypto Is Coming for Your Retirement Plan
The cryptocurrency exchange FTX recently collapsed in spectacular fashion. Yet a lawsuit linked to the exchange is currently attempting to force crypto into the retirement market.
Italy’s Crisis Is Rooted in a Decades-Long Neoliberal Offensive
This fall’s Italian elections saw voters punish the incumbent parties of government yet again. But behind the upheaval in the party system is a narrowing of real political choice, as working-class interests struggle to find electoral expression.
The Tories, Not British Workers, Are to Blame for the Unraveling of the UK’s Public Services
Thanks to over a decade of Conservative-imposed austerity, the UK’s public services are stretched to the breaking point. Public sector workers are going on strike to save the country’s public goods from dangerous underfunding.
NYC’s Proposed Private Helicopter Ban Is One of the Best Ideas in Years
Banning private nonessential helicopters would be a political and environmental masterstroke: curbing the wasteful narcissism of the rich, while improving life for everyone else.
Canadian Businesses Took Pandemic Benefits to the Bank and Left Workers Holding the Bag
Employers took billions from the Canadian government in wage support funds, and many of them continued to pay CEOs millions and issue dividends. Yet the government is now looking for payback from workers, not bosses.
Why is Netflix Giving Us a Wednesday Addams Who Wants to Feel Feels?
Netflix’s new Addams Family show puts Wednesday’s teenaged emotional life front and center — and suffers for it.
A Catholic University With a Radical History Faces a Union Drive of Its Own
Catholic radical Louis J. Twomey’s labor institute at Loyola University New Orleans trained a generation of workers for class struggle. A new union drive among the university’s food service workers draws on that legacy of the best of Catholic trade unionism.
Kyrsten Sinema Is Playing Chicken With the Democrats
Arizona senator Kyrsten Sinema’s switch from the Democrats to independent isn’t about political principle — it’s a last-ditch attempt to save her reelection prospects against a progressive challenger.
Labour Must Commit to Scrapping the Tories’ New Anti-Strike Law
Britain's Conservative government has proposed a law that would effectively conscript public sector unions into breaking their own strikes. Yet Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has not committed to overturning these laws should his party win the next election.
Bernie Sanders’s Yemen War Powers Resolution Could Help End the Monstrous War
Bernie Sanders has introduced a new resolution to cut off US support for the horrific Saudi-led war in Yemen. The measure is a crucial step toward peace — but it will have to be backed up with serious pressure on Joe Biden, so he doesn’t flout the resolution.