Today is Jen Psaki's last day as Joe Biden's press secretary before becoming an MSNBC pundit. She's the latest in a long line of Democratic presidential flacks who have become corporate lackeys and mouthpieces.
In 2022, Netflix will release over 120 seasons of television. Churning out half-baked shows for niche audiences seems to be yielding diminishing financial returns — but the model’s corrosive effect on film and television may be impossible to reverse.
The “Beergate” scandal is, in the grand scheme of things, small potatoes. The real scandal should be that Britain is awash in crushing poverty, and Labour under Keir Starmer is doing little to fight it.
In 2010, the citizens of Tyneside, England, composed and performed an epic musical number about their metro system. Try to watch it without weeping.
The Biden administration hasn’t stopped trying to privatize Medicare. But a pushback is gaining steam.
Despite majority support for abortion rights, we failed to build a majority coalition to defend reproductive freedom. We should honestly assess our failures — and then build a movement that ties together labor, feminists, and health care organizing.
Sri Lanka’s economic crisis has produced an explosion of violence on the island. That violence won’t end until the country ends its war on Tamils and Muslims and drastically scales back its military budget.
Spreading knowledge and awareness of the climate crisis isn’t enough. There’s no hope for the planet without climate policies that address the material interests of workers.
In a speech to the Progressive International, former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn says now is not a time for retreat. We must build a powerful alternative to capitalist destruction.
Protesters are peacefully demonstrating outside the homes of Supreme Court justices who are about to overturn Roe v. Wade — and conservatives are demanding the government arrest them.
The master of psychosexual cinema, Paul Verhoeven, has produced another lurid romp, this time about lesbian nuns in the 17th century. Underlying Benedetta’s silliness, though, is a thoughtful reflection on faith and love for our deeply secular times.
News coverage of the antiabortion movement tends to omit its history of violence. So we're here to remind you: the antiabortion right has a violent track record, from attacking clinics and patients to assassinating abortion providers.