UAW president Shawn Fain’s speech was the best part of the DNC. It featured a direct focus on workers otherwise absent from party rhetoric, and sidestepped the culture wars to identify the “one true enemy” of corporate power.
Texas is about to open its business courts, a new legal system backed by Big Oil that is expected to have immediate impacts on environmental cases in the state. The courts’ judges were handpicked by Gov. Greg Abbott, a major recipient of oil industry cash.
Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni used to damn liberal “globalists” who undermined national sovereignty. This week, she accepted the Atlantic Council’s Global Citizen Award, in recognition of her role as a servile ally to Washington.
From unleashing more dark money in politics to expanding fossil fuel production and assaulting reproductive rights, here’s some of what we can expect from a second Donald Trump administration.
The Democratic Party has become, improbably, the preferred party of American capital. But in doing so, it’s lost more and more of its working-class base.
Bidenomics wasn’t ambitious enough, but the solution isn’t just more welfare.
Donald Trump’s second term could empower the organized far right much more than the first. Its current mobilizing strength suggests it’s far from ready to take over the state apparatus — but it does have opportunities to build a dangerous threat.
Bidenomics wasn’t ambitious enough, but the solution isn’t just more welfare.
The Democratic Party has become, improbably, the preferred party of the elites.
The TikTok ban is about US tech hegemony, not national security or protecting Americans’ data, which homegrown social media companies make a business of collecting and selling.
Donald Trump’s first executive orders should dispel any fantasy of him as either a noninterventionist or an economic populist.
Donald Trump’s return to power is a morale booster for far-right politicians like Viktor Orbán, Javier Milei, and Giorgia Meloni. Having pioneered many of the destructive, reactionary ideas associated with Trumpism, they’re now aspiring to global hegemony.
At the dawn of a second Trump era, American Hindu supremacists are increasingly aligning themselves with the MAGA far right.
For the electrosensitive community in Green Bank, West Virginia, the perils of progress haunt our present.
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s new book Abundance has plenty of merits, writes Matt Bruenig, but its emphasis on growth and innovation must be married to other egalitarian concerns.
New data show that Canada’s inequality crisis is driven by both billionaire wealth and runaway housing costs. Without a meaningful fix, both democracy and economic growth will be distorted by entrenched interests.
When Donald Trump was forced to pause most of his tariffs, the country got a basic lesson in Marxist state theory: when states push policies that threaten profits, they trigger mechanisms that discipline them back into line with capitalist interests.
Donald Trump’s first 100 days have shown what a vigorous use of executive power actually looks like. But aside from permanently hobbling the modern American state, it’s hard to see what he’s actually achieved with it.
Ultranationalist Călin Georgescu was barred from Romania’s presidential election, but now another far-right candidate has taken over his poll lead. To defeat them requires real social policies, not just calls to stop extremism.