Over 50 years ago, German philosopher Günther Anders warned that space travel was in danger of being used for power and profit. Against the “provincialism” of space capitalism, he wanted the view of outer space to meaningfully expand our horizons on Earth.
The 20th century saw an explosion in teen media. Now many of those magazines have folded.
Nayib Bukele swept to power in 2019 by presenting himself as an insurgent outsider who was going to clean up corruption in El Salvador. In reality he has waged war on democratic rights and turned his country into a MAGA prison camp.
Today the Chabad-Lubavitch movement champions far-right religious zealotry under a messianic banner. But a century ago, left-wing Jewish thinkers like Walter Benjamin and Franz Kafka understood messianic prophecy as foretelling universal liberation.
After nearly half a century as a key figurehead in the Democratic Party’s rightward turn on domestic politics, Joe Biden had a chance to undo some of that damage as president. Time after time, he blew it.
The argument of Ta-Nehisi’s Coates’s latest book, The Message, is that Israel is not and will never be a democracy. He describes the racist hierarchy on which Israel was founded in terms that are hard to dismiss.
Western states have not merely supported Israel’s devastating attack on Gaza as if it were a just war of self-defense. They have also sought to repress those demonstrating for the right of Palestinians to live in dignity — or simply to live.
There’s a reason why urban housing developments and suburban subdivisions can seem threatening and unwelcoming to outsiders: they’re planned that way, in order to “design out crime.”
The TikTok ban saga perfectly captures both Republican cynicism and Democratic incompetence: Trump takes credit for “saving” an app his administration originally moved to ban, while Democrats fumble another opportunity to connect with young people.
Canadian unions are forming alliances with industry to fight Donald Trump’s tariffs — at a time when they should be prioritizing deeper problems facing workers like austerity, increasing automation, and wage suppression.
The global birth rate collapse threatens more than economic dynamism and the viability of the welfare state. It poses a threat to the future of radical politics.
Donald Trump’s administration is doing everything it can to project power and a sense of unstoppability in his first days as president. But the cracks are already starting to show.
At the top of the fossil fuel industry’s legislative priorities are sweeping protections against liability for the climate disasters they knew burning fossil fuels would cause. Republicans in Congress are doing their best to help out.
The Food and Drug Administration has approved controversial drug treatments for Alzheimer’s disease amid excess deaths, questionable efficacy, and conflicts of interest between regulators, patient advocates, and Big Pharma.
J. D. Vance offended European colleagues on Friday by publicly doubting that they are champions of democracy. Some of the examples he cited were spurious — but the EU establishment’s shocked reaction itself spoke to their unreflective groupthink.
Nine countries in the Global South have come together to form the Hague Group, dedicated to ensuring that international law is enforced against Israel. The alliance marks the revival of a proud tradition of Third World solidarity.
Donald Trump’s moves to dismantle USAID clearly aren’t driven by fears of infringing on other nations’ sovereignty. Still, we should recognize that Global South NGOs’ reliance on Western donors hinders the growth of self-sustaining civil societies.
From a Russian prison, Boris Kagarlitsky writes about the uncharted waters of a second Donald Trump presidency.
Throughout the entire history of left-wing and working-class organizing in the United States, the participation in and building of institutions of political education has been key.
Turkey’s ruling AKP views the fall of Assad in Syria as an opportunity to project power across the region. But the conflicting interests of the Gulf monarchies, Israel, and the US will make attempts by any one power to exert influence over Syria fraught.