After many failed attempts to rein in vulture funds, New York lawmakers are trying an obscure medieval legal defense to stop them from profiting off the debt of poor nations. This last-resort option faces stiff resistance from Wall Street’s lobbying machine.
A former CIA station chief revered by Miami’s anti-Castro circles now faces prison as an unregistered foreign agent. His path from Cold War covert ops to selling secrets says a lot about the political machinery he came from.
From 1976 to 1989, Hai Fan was a guerrilla fighter in the ranks of the Malayan Communist Party. His short story collection, Delicious Hunger, humanizes his comrades — and artfully portrays the tragedy of their struggle.
Emmanuel Macron has been a president for the rich, but his faltering support has also left big business unsure if it can rely on his party. For many French capitalists, the answer is to build up ties with Marine Le Pen’s far-right Rassemblement National.
In 1995, new AFL-CIO director John Sweeney had an ambitious plan to organize millions of new union members. As labor’s fortunes continue to decline 30 years later, understanding what went wrong in the Sweeney years may offer clues as to the path forward.
Just one in ten American voters supports greater spending on the military. That didn’t stop the US Senate from joining the House of Representatives last week in voting to pass a record-breaking $901 billion defense budget for next year.
The Suez Canal is a symbol of Arab nationalism. It’s also a damn good source of national income.
Employers have long put customers to work watching and judging workers. With the development of technology like Ray-Ban Meta glasses, now customers have new surveillance tools of their own.
The European Union’s top official, Ursula von der Leyen, has declared rearmament the bloc’s emergency priority. While military spending soars to new heights, working people face a fresh era of austerity.
Talks over an American-Russian peace plan seek to impose a harsh settlement on Ukraine. Faced with the carve-up of territory, it’s vital to build an international peace movement opposing the logic of imperialist blocs.
Gaza used to have twelve higher-education institutions. Over the last two years, Israel partly or totally destroyed every one of them in its campaign to crush Palestinian public life and ruin its chances of recovery.
Ninety years after the original Nye Committee exposed the arms industry’s corruption, the Pentagon and its contractors are bigger, richer, and more unaccountable than ever.
Abdullah Öcalan’s Kurdistan Workers’ Party is engaged in high-stakes negotiations with the Turkish government over a peace settlement. The outcome will shape the future for Kurds throughout the region, including the PKK’s sister parties in Syria and Iran.
Aijaz Ahmad belonged to a generation of South Asian left intellectuals who came of age in the heyday of anti-colonial revolution. He was an uncompromising opponent of the Hindutva right that betrayed the heritage of India’s struggle against colonialism.
America’s richest earn in hours what ordinary workers earn over lifetimes. As Donald Trump’s tax bill seeks to make the plunder of the filthy rich permanent, “inequality” no longer feels like a strong enough word for what we’re facing.
Benjamin Netanyahu is running out of road for his genocidal assault on Gaza.
The assassination of Sharif Osman Hadi, the youth leader who rose from Dhaka’s 2024 uprisings, has reignited mass revolt and exposed the limits of Bangladesh’s elite-managed democracy.
With the passage of a $2 trillion stimulus bill, deficit-phobia appears to be waning in Washington. But it’s not because lawmakers have been won over to redistributive policies — it’s because they think the working class is too weak to set off inflation.
The Pakistani military establishment has been facing heavy criticism since it ousted Imran Khan and clamped down on political dissent. The country’s generals have now exploited the stand-off with India over Kashmir to boost their flagging popularity.
Mexico’s hugely popular president, Claudia Sheinbaum, won massive reforms in 2025. But with the Donald Trump administration’s neocolonial interventions in Latin America, next year will be a fight for survival.