In the first two weeks of its war on Iran, the US spent an estimated $2.1 billion a day. It’s no wonder Donald Trump is saying that the cost of war means the federal government can’t afford to spend money to help Americans meet their basic needs.
Fifty years ago today, on May Day 1971, thousands of antiwar protesters descended on Washington, DC, to protest the Vietnam War. The ensuing three days of disruptive actions directly confronted the Nixon administration — and resulted in the largest civil disobedience–related detentions in US history.
The 1970s were a high-water mark for the US labor movement, with work stoppages, wildcat strikes, and sit-downs spreading up and down the country, involving workers in all industries.
The end of the bloody, US-backed civil wars across Central America led to a brutal neoliberal economic restructuring near the turn of the century — which then helped produce the 21st-century authoritarianism of Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele.
The far-right violence that Donald Trump has stoked has deep roots in US history. Kicking him from office won’t change that — but it would deal a blow to right-wing vigilantism.
Forty-five years ago, under a cloak of secrecy, Operation Condor was officially launched: a global campaign of violent repression against the Latin American left by the region’s quasi-fascist military dictatorships. The US government not only knew about the program — it helped to engineer it.
This summer could see 350,000 UPS workers walk off the job in the United States’ largest strike in decades. The Teamsters are getting ready. Here’s a look at how.
Two University of California tech workers explain their unionization process — and how unions can help recapture the original promise of tech being used to better people’s lives rather than make the worst people in the world ever richer.
The Freedom 250 mixed martial arts event at the White House will be a new low for the UFC and its president, Dana White. After campaigning for Donald Trump in 2024, White is now turning the sport he runs into a propaganda prop for Trump’s 80th birthday.
When The Battle of Algiers premiered at the Venice Film Festival 60 years ago this month, the French delegation refused to attend. From the moment of its shooting, in the aftermath of Algeria’s liberation war, Gillo Pontecorvo’s film was deeply political.
In 1906, US troops slaughtered up to 1,000 Moros at Bud Dajo in the southern Philippines, then called it a battle. Historian Kim Wagner explains how an empire can commit atrocities and how it teaches itself to forget them.
The historian Frances Stonor Saunders died recently at age 60. Her book Who Paid the Piper? pulled back the curtain on postwar CIA funding of Western cultural institutions — despite repeated attempts to censor it, including by her American publisher.
For every American won over to radicalism in 1968, there was another captured by George Wallace’s right-wing populism.
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.
A wave of tour cancellations. Ticket website crashes. Iran war fuel surges. Fans going into debt to attend festivals. Welcome to the misery that is live music in 2026.
Polls show that many older Americans don’t support Bernie Sanders. But we don’t want to write those boomers off — we want to warmly invite them to join our movement that’s fighting for dignified lives for us, for them, and for their children and grandchildren.
The life and death of the ideology that gave us Iraq.
Crunching the numbers on the class war.
Crunching the numbers on the class war.
Ken Livingstone’s legacy in London reminds us just how much democratic socialist leadership can do for a single city.