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.
Liberals and socialists typically see themselves as foes. But truly realizing liberal ideals of freedom and equality means building a socialist order — a lesson liberals and socialists alike would do well to remember.
Across Europe, centrist parties increasingly paint even mild social democracy as a “radical left” threat. The wild rhetoric about left-wing danger has a clear goal: to justify alliances with once-frowned-upon far-right parties.
Federal and state governments are now using AI for everything from determining eligibility for welfare benefits to predicting child abuse and criminal activity. Critics say faulty algorithms are ruining people’s lives and leaving victims little recourse.
Sunday’s German election saw a big shift toward right-wing parties. But while the Alternative für Deutschland piled up votes in the former East, socialist party Die Linke also made a major breakthrough.
The Trump administration wages a ruthless war on “wokeness” when it means gutting social programs. But when it means suing a predatory firm that acts woke while ripping working-class Americans off, Trump suddenly loses interest.
Astrophysicist Clara Sousa-Silva needs data on Earth’s climate to accurately observe space. Earlier this month, she discovered that crucial climate datasets had disappeared. When DOGE cuts accelerated, more data vanished.
In interrupting Donald Trump’s speech to Congress, Rep. Al Green showed more vigor in opposing the president’s undemocratic, anti-worker agenda than any other act since Inauguration Day. Democrats should emulate Green, not censure him.
Donald Trump’s desire to take over Greenland brought unprecedented global attention to this week’s election. But calls for independence weren’t the only issue at stake in the election debate, and there’s little support for integration with the US.
The sci-fi film Things to Come debuted just before World War II. It was all too prophetic in its portrait of a society destroyed and then rebuilt by advanced technology.
Thirteen legal groups bankrolled by dark money are urging the Supreme Court to kneecap federal agencies’ ability to take on corporations — a strategy to strip agencies of their power to protect consumers and workers.
Yesterday the Trump administration ordered 18 government agencies to terminate their collective bargaining agreements and cease union negotiations. The move could strip hundreds of thousands of federal workers of their union protections.
Yesterday Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on all of America’s trading partners, with the explicit aim of “liberating” the US from unfair trade. Not only are these efforts confused, they will lock America in a cycle of stagnation and inflation.
Donald Trump’s trade war means that we’re entering a qualitatively new phase in the history of capitalism. Yet the new economic order taking shape will be just as “globalist” as the neoliberal regime it’s supplanting.
Wars abroad, the affordability crisis, inflation, censorship of political speech — Donald Trump successfully exploited discontent with Joe Biden’s administration on all these issues and more. Trump is now making all of them far worse.
After stock markets plummeted in response to Donald Trump’s announcement of widespread tariffs, he suddenly announced a 90-day pause on the new policy. Capital will resist any measure that threatens profits — and that’s just what happened yesterday.
The Left’s predicament today is not that there is no opposition or resistance and not that the Right has all the power. It’s the sense that we lack the levers of power we once wielded.
The 33-year-old socialist Zohran Mamdani’s laser focus on affordability, smart media strategy, and undeniable charisma have made him a serious challenger for New York City mayor — and a likely fixture in New York politics for a long time to come.
As Donald Trump works to undermine the Social Security Administration, his ultrarich Social Security commissioner, Frank Bisignano, was just approved for a giant tax break on a $484 million capital gains sale.
In 1986, black workers in apartheid South Africa walked off the job in support of unionists in New Jersey. Their strike marked a rare moment of international labor solidarity at the height of deindustrialization and apartheid.