Zohran Mamdani Is Already Winning on Childcare
We’re less than two weeks into Zohran Mamdani’s mayoralty, and he has already notched an impressive victory on one of his key campaign promises: universal childcare.
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What Was the Golden Age of Social Democracy?
For 40 years, social democratic parties radically improved life for workers. The labor movement and worker militancy made it possible.
The Deficit Hawks
The mainstream media never misses a chance to fearmonger about social welfare spending. Tonight's debate will be no exception.
It’s Easy to Imagine a World Without ICE
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has only existed since 2003. There’s nothing extreme about the idea of disbanding the rogue agency.
China Came Late to Capitalism but Early to Its Pathologies
In China, the number of single-person households has increased along with rates of loneliness. In this respect, China is not unique. It is simply suffering from the same social dislocation affecting all advanced capitalist states.
Where Is the Off-Ramp From All This State Violence?
It’s hard to think of a parallel effort in US history to build a domestic agency of violence specialists at the scale of ICE.
Even Law Enforcement Officers Think This Has Gone Too Far
The impunity with which ICE and other DHS agents are carrying out violence and murders in cities like Minneapolis is so awful that now scores of law enforcement officials themselves are speaking out against it.
Ohio Train Derailment Victims Are Still Waiting for Justice
Three years after the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, the railroad, lawyers, and myriad companies involved in a $600 million class action settlement have all been paid — while many residents have yet to receive anything.
Donald Trump Is Kneecapping Corporate Oversight
President Donald Trump has been carrying out a frenzied deregulation of financial markets. Recently, the administration stacked the US’s top watchdog of corporate auditors with Trump loyalists and former executives of the companies they will now oversee.
Credit Reporting Companies Want to Hide Consumer Complaints
The major credit reporting companies that help determine your ability to obtain a loan, buy a house, or get a job are urging the Trump administration to hide consumer complaints about their potential misdeeds, which can wreck families’ finances.
Liberal Poptimists Tried to Kill Rock. They Failed.
Faced with declining market share and poptimist contempt, rock music once seemed bound for the dustbin of history. But an industry crisis and a moribund liberal political establishment are driving a rediscovery of rock’s potential.
Cuba Is Not Alone
The Trump administration is determined to finally crush Cuba, through concerted actions to cut off its fuel supply. Resisting Donald Trump’s imperialism, the Nuestra América solidarity convoy is mobilizing to provide direct aid to the Cuban people.
Why Is There No Antiwar Movement in the US?
We don’t have an effective, mass antiwar movement to push back against Donald Trump’s war on Iran. We need one immediately.
Between Rojava and Washington
The Kurdish struggle has been undermined by world-power clashes over the future of Syria.
Donald Trump, Warmonger in Chief
The United States is attacking Iran because Donald Trump was determined to drag us into war no matter what — and despite repeatedly insisting he would do the exact opposite.
Middle East Wars Are Still About Oil and Empire
Gilbert Achcar explains how oil, US power, and regional rivalries have shaped decades of conflict in the Middle East — and why the confrontation with Iran fits a long imperial pattern.
US Military Aid to Israel Is a National Security Risk
We have another report that Israel used the military power the US underwrites to pressure Donald Trump into a disastrous war in Iran. US military aid to Israel makes Americans — to say nothing of the rest of the world — less safe.
Why the US Backs Israel
A new US military package will shower billions of dollars on Israel. But not because it supports democracy.
Police Tech Giant Axon Is Concealing Its Political Spending
Police body camera and weapons juggernaut Axon is reporting blockbuster earnings amid the Trump administration’s explosive spending on immigration policing. The company is resisting efforts to make it disclose its political spending strategy.
Trump’s Latest AI Contract Clause Scraps Crucial Safeguards
A new Trump administration contracting clause would require AI companies like Anthropic to make their technology available to federal agencies “for any lawful government purpose” — even for uses their systems are designed to prevent.